Style, readability, etc. (long, but IMPORTANT)

Chris Torek chris at umcp-cs.UUCP
Tue Jul 23 22:03:22 AEST 1985


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Mesa, "highly readable"?  The keywords are in all caps!  Yucko!

(But at least it lets one use {, } for BEGIN, END.)

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Actually, the biggest problem I've had writing (not debugging,
creating) Mesa code is following the profusion of derived types.
Bitblt wants a BBptr which points to a Block which is an array of
Environment.Byte which... well, you probably get the idea.  It
takes three manuals open to six different places simultaneously
until you've learned the more common types.
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