teco VS boot

Code formatting is all about matching the impedance of the source code to that of the human author/readers of the code. The development of literature suggest that innovation in this area will continue for a very long time.

I myself am a huge fan of Pascal, and limiting code to one function per line. I find that clever/terse code is unmaintainable code.

Here's some code I wrote back in 1991 for a TECO clone that reflects that style. Looking back, I think some things could have a few more comments, but it seems fairly easy to read the intent of the code.

https://github.com/mikewarot/teco

https://github.com/boot-clj/boot/blob/master/boot/base/src/m... looks like the gnu standard for C (https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Formatting), applied to Java.

I think that was done to make grepping for function definitions easier (when searching for the definition of foo, grep for “^foo\b”. That makes implementing “go to function definition” possible without having to parse code)