From: "Thorsten Michels [Theorie Hiwi]" <michels@osiris.informatik.uni-kl.de>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [alt.fan.pratchett] Re: [I] Programmers writing styles
Date: 21 Oct 1997 19:12:56 GMT

Subject: Re: [I] Programmers writing styles (was Re: A Diferent Type Of Novel ?)
From: andrewm@chiark.greenend.org.uk (Andrew Mobbs)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett

John Barberio  <97298284@brookes.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>Sorry, It's A ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H it's a bad habit that i got into when i
>learnt how to program, and some times i just slip into title case.
>Either that or i dont capitilse my i's. As you can see, i do try and not
>do this, but it's like biting your finger nails...

Which language was that?

I can BEGIN to UNDERSTAND people WHO program Modula-(2|3) RANDOMLY
capitalizing WORDS to no good END

(or people(who program) in (lisp (putting (arbitrary) parantheses
aroung) words))

C {encourages excessive {use of {curly} brackets;} and semicolons;}

Public static void foobar wibble Java(spong) just gives large prefixes
to sentences;

Perl programmers are OK $until /!@(.*\?)\^/$_\1/ || die "they write
anything detailed";

Prolog programmers' prose is (X) to read depending on (Y) and how the
author (Z).