Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor
Alex Tweedly
alex at tweedly.net
Fri Jul 1 11:01:49 EDT 2005
Thomas McGrath III wrote:
> Eric,
>
> Is that what it is really called? Pretty printing? Or is that a
> translation thing?
>
> It just sounds a little funny.
It's really called that.
I *think* the name was first used in Lisp back in the 60s .... certainly
it was in common use by the time I got involved in computers (1970),
though it was still a "feature" then; it has become so ubiquitous that
the word itself is less frequently needed these days - everyone knows
programs should be laid out sensibly (even if they don't agree on what
is sensible :-)
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