On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 09:40:08 +0000, Clive Page <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Since it is much more important for a program to be read correctly by a
> human than by a machine, I now write all mine in lower-case. I use other
> methods to try to separate the comments. I have tried writing them all
> in upper-case: works, but doesn't look very nice.
Have you tried writing your comments in Japanese? It works extremely well.
:-)
Well, I learned to read/write Fortran in upper-case so I don't feel like
I can read lower-cased Fortran programs any better than upper-cased ones..
I suppose Fortran has a much smaller vocabulary and contexts in which words
appear in than any natural language, so that recognizing words in Fortran
doesn't require as much visual clues as in English.
On a related note, I can imagine some time in the future people would tell
me
I shouldn't be editing Fortran programs in fixed-width fonts; everybody
knows
that proportional fonts is much easier to read -- all English books are
printed that way.
--
Yasuki Arasaki
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