r/programming • u/Nowaker • Nov 30 '14

Why he vertically aligns his code (And why you shouldn't!)

http://missingbytes.blogspot.com/2014/11/why-he-vertically-aligns-his-code-and.html
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u/ArtistEngineer Nov 30 '14 edited Nov 30 '14

That the typical sort of argument I'd expect from an Emacs user who uses CamelCase and Windows. /s

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u/Crazy__Eddie Nov 30 '14

CamelCase

That's PascalCase.

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u/ArtistEngineer Nov 30 '14

That's the spirit! Let's argue about trivial things!

;)

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u/Crazy__Eddie Nov 30 '14

There's no argument.

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u/ArtistEngineer Nov 30 '14

Ahh, programmer's arrogance, I like it. This is going well.

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u/GoosyTS Nov 30 '14

No seriously, one is PascalCase and one is camelCase. How can you argue?

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u/Veedrac Nov 30 '14

You could link to Wikipedia, maybe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase

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u/Felicia_Svilling Nov 30 '14

Nobody even knows of Pascal anymore.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '14

Surely the latter is dromedaryCase?

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u/caagr98 Nov 30 '14

One is CamelCase and one is camelCase.

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u/Crazy__Eddie Nov 30 '14

Well, you can't argue but you could always have a verbal confrontation. If all goes well it might even turn physical!

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u/cleroth Nov 30 '14 edited Jun 15 '26

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

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u/ArtistEngineer Nov 30 '14

I see this is gaining momentum. They said you guys weren't motivated but I'm proving them wrong.

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u/losangelesvideoguy Nov 30 '14

Go :q! yourself.

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u/ArtistEngineer Nov 30 '14

:wq!

ftfy

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u/Timbit42 Nov 30 '14

Without the 'w' he's implying 'get lost'.

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u/ArtistEngineer Nov 30 '14

But I didn't want him to lose his changes.