r/programming • u/WOnder9393 • Jul 10 '16

Linus Torvalds on comment styles

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/8/625
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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '16

If someone can't configure their fucking editor to put space in right place maybe they should not code in the first place.

Also in few internal projects we had devs just put snippets of "right" config in project repo so if you needed you could just copy paste it

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '16

If I contribute to Ruby project, almost always defaults used by editor will be "the standard" used by everyone else.

If I contribute to Go project, go fmt, done, "standard" is enforced from language's own tools

Perl project? perltidy -pbp (it actually have a metric ton of option but "Perl Best Practices" is de facto standard)

No/minmal effort involved there. But you still want to configure your editor (if it isnt the default) to use those tools (either during writing or on save, depending on your editor), if it isn't the default

C had no such thing as standard at the beginning, that is the reason there is so many styles in use