Comments by "GH1618" (@GH-oi2jf) on "How Senior Programmers ACTUALLY Write Code" video.

  1. I always wanted my code to run forever without giving anybody any grief. Of course it all became obsolete, but not because I was sloppy.
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  2. Regarding point 2: I never wanted auto-formatting. I expect most of them would put the braces in the wrong place, which almost all programmers do. I followed Dijkstra's rules, before his book* came out, and put the code on the page where I thought it resulted in the best clarity. I recently looked into where Martin Richards placed the braces in his BCPL code (where he originated the practice), and his convention is the same as Dijkstra's rule. That is to be expected, because it comes from Algol. I'm long retired now, though, so I'm not interested in debating the subject. It's a lost cause, I expect. *A Method of Programming
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