#2 has my vote - leave well enough alone!

On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Mike Cheponis wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I don't think there was a resolution to my proposal to change KNF from
> 8-space indents to 2-4 space indents.  The Shneiderman article found 2 space
> indents to be optimal, for reasons I have reported previously.
> 
> Contact Prof. Ben Shneiderman  <http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/ben/> if you 
> want.  Also. Prof. Martha Crosby at U of Hawaii has done supporting work.
> 
> -----
> 
> As I see it, what we have here is academic research that tells us that 2-4
> space indents are superior to 8-space indents.
> 
> And as I see it, we have two choices:
> 
> 1) Adopt 2-4 space indents;
> 
> -or-
> 
> 2) Ignore the research, damn the torpedos, if it was good enough for my
>    grandaddy, then it's good enough for me! approach.  
> 
>    The hell with the research, we don't give a damn about research, we're
>    gonna stick with the old way because we're a bunch of incorrigible
>    curmudgeons.
> 
>    And, of course, in the process make it very clear that the NetBSD 
>    project is not interested in improvements on how the codebase is
>    managed, maintained, and enhanced.
> 
>  
>    This approach flies in the face of everything that is NetBSD: a platform
>    that uses the latest academic research for improvement.
> 
> 
> 
> Clearly, I advocate (1).
> 
> -Mike Cheponis
> 
> 
> 
> 

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