[DeveloperX]

[Nodtveidt]

Everyone seems to complain about style these days. Let me take a look at the coding style of these whiners...I will poke many holes in their coding style, citing reference after reference to why their style is inferior to the professionals. Before one whines about style, maybe they should take a look at their own and make some "corrections"...or maybe they should just leave a person's individual coding style the hell alone and whine about something else worth whining about (or perhaps stop whining altogether, since whining accomplishes NOTHING!).
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[DeveloperX]

[tunginobi]

Good style: anything that can be read and understood by other people.

I can look at anybody's code and easily mimic their style. Capital letters, underscores, camel case, tabs versus spaces... in many places, none of that really matters, so long as it's consistent.

Obviously a team needs to agree to a naming convention when implementing an API to whatever library they're working on. But really, I'm happy if I can read it.

[Nodtveidt]

Those "other people" are going to vary though. No one's code can be read and understood by everyone. For example: People have been parroting for ages about how great the NeHe tutorials are, but I can't make heads or tails of that crap, and I don't exactly think I'm an idiot or inconsequential. Great style? Completely open to interpretation. Furthermore, when working on a team, obviously you have to have some accepted standards, but when working on your own stuff, the only person who needs to understand it is you yourself. There are a few norms that everyone should probably follow to make their own code more readable to even themselves that in no way hinders the effectiveness of the compiler (using things such as int iVariableName is VERY effective), but beyond that, coding style is fair game.
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If you play a Microsoft CD backwards you can hear demonic voices. The scary part is that if you play it forwards it installs Windows. - wallace

[white_wolf]

[Nodtveidt]

white_wolf, are you completely airheaded? I was DEFENDING DevX, not criticizing him. Get a clue!
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[LeoDraco]

Eww, Hungarian Notation! I personally find that to be the single most ugly thing ever. Modern editors usually have discovery techniques which make it quite old. Good languages, conversely, would hardly be agile if it were used.

I do agree with the consistency thing, too. For any who care, my criticism earlier in this thread had nothing to do with the coding style of DeveloperX's code; I just don't think his abstraction is usable, even for a neophyte. A properly written abstraction should make code easier to read, not obscure it behind a bunch of meaningless, inconsistent cruft.
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[DeveloperX]

[LeoDraco]

[RedSlash]

[DeveloperX]

[Nodtveidt]

[DeveloperX]

[tcaudilllg]

Have you made this into a comprehensive engine, like the kind that you can make a complete game relatively quick with?