A lot of the original C coders are still alive or only very recently gone (retired, or the ultimate retirement, so to speak), and they carried their cramped coding style with them from those ancient and very cramped systems. Old habits die hard. And then there's a whole generation who were self-taught or learned from the original coders and there's a lot of bad habits, twisted thinking and carry-over there too.

(You should see some of my code. On second thought, it's probably best you don't.)

[–] dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

You should see some of my code. On second thought, it’s probably best you don’t.

thats the same warning i give to anyone looking at ~/scripts. particularly ~/scripts/bas, ~/scripts/js and ~/scripts/bat_bkp (which is copy of /mnt/msdos/jp/batch)

all code in those folders is like that