Avoid Else, Return Early (2013)

Re:Avoid Else, Return Early (2013) by btilly on Monday March 26, 2018 @11:04AM (#16679414)

Let's see. The Unix indent utility was what, mid-1980s? GNU indent came out in 1989. Python was released in the mid-1980s. PEP-8 was released in 2001.

Yup, Python clearly pioneered automatic code formatting. Nobody had done it before them...

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Re:Avoid Else, Return Early (2013) by Someone on Monday March 26, 2018 @12:07PM (#16679902)

Lisp pretty printing was available in February 1973 (http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/MIT/AIM-27...).

That document states Bill Gosper wrote one of the first pretty printers, but doesn’t give a date for it.

I would think it is much older, as writing a simple lisp pretty-printer is easy and reading lisp without autoformatting is “less than ideal”.

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