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Comment on Ask HN: Examples of Unusual Code Formatting Styles?

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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

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