Ask HN: Why is the source folder called 'src'?

Re:Ask HN: Why is the source folder called 'src'? by oneearedrabbit on Friday April 22, 2022 @11:03AM (#31122470)

"White space is as important to code as silence is to music. Without them music is noise and code is an impenetrable wall of text." -Nils M Holm

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the source folder called 'src'? by muzani on Friday April 22, 2022 @07:33PM (#31129581)

That's white space. Difference between source and src is more like a 1/8 note vs 1/4.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the source folder called 'src'? by karmakaze on Friday April 22, 2022 @02:55PM (#31126411)

Probably true for Lisp, but gofmt would disagree.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the source folder called 'src'? by KSPAtlas on Friday April 22, 2022 @07:20PM (#31129467)

Writing a formatter for lisp would be a piece of cake, as the syntax is very simple

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the source folder called 'src'? by karmakaze on Friday April 22, 2022 @08:47PM (#31130145)

I meant to refer to how gofmt doesn't destroy information (to a human reader) whereas a Lisp formatter would probably make well-formatted comprehensible source much less so: conceptual chunks can't be inferred from syntactic ones--well maybe with GPT-3.

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