Originally posted by John Deal:
Yes I am an old hacker. COBOL Begin-Paragraph End-Paragraph (or something like that), Pascal Begin End, SPL (Algol 60 based language), C, C++ { }. I like to try to keep the same basic code layout across all languges. Personally the SUN standard for brace placement drives me crazy. I will most likely do it "My Way" then convert it at the end. I may just try the format converter.
I was a software programmer/engineer for 23 years before starting to teach at a community college for the last 3 years. Lots of languages, lots of targets, lots of operating systems. It has been quite a ride!
Thanks!
Thank you John, that explains it all. I remember one teacher saying in a data structures class (that was taught using Java) that we were not just programming in a new language (most people had an Object Pascal background), we had to "speak Javanese" - that included not writing method names starting with capital letters (we used to do that in OP), writing braces as if they were begin/end paragraphs, among other subtleties.
Not placing the braces the standard way, considering your experience, may lead people to think you despise other Java subtleties in favor of old (bad?) practices you consider correct.