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In article <1992Aug27.201810.20982@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>,
ah739@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Leslie J. Somos) wrote:
> OK, I believe most people would agree that choices in program layout are
> just fluff, unimportant (in languages that don't care).

I disagree.  How many times have people been bitten by the following bug,
hidden by bad layout:

    returnCode = kNoError;
    foo = DoSomeProcessing();
     if (NULL == foo)
        fprintf(stderr, "foo ought not be NULL.\n");
        returnCode = kError;
    DoSomeMoreProcessing();
    return returnCode;

> STOP RIGHT THERE.  I, for one, will not agree that choice of variable
> names is not important.  Of course, the compiler doesn't care, about
> names or layout, that's why obfuscating programs work.
> But variable names are _very_ important to humans who must read
> programs.

And so is layout.
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