Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

[Glenn E. Fisher]

All,
I vaguely remember from my UNIX and C days that there was a command 
named "cb" that was named "Program Beautifier".  It took C source file 
as input and wrote a file that had the C source in indented and 
structured form.  There was also a command named "uucleanup" that did a 
similar thing with uu (Unix to Unix) transfer scripts.

So it's pretty or beautiful or clean...:-)

This is fun,
Glenn

On July 1, 2005 10:01:49 AM CDT Alex Tweedly <alex at tweedly.net> 
scribbled:
> 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 :-)
>
> -- 
> Alex Tweedly       http://www.tweedly.net

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