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Totally. A programmer who doesn't care about code style is like a writer who's fine with misspellings and sloppy punctuation. The story (or algorithm) can still be awesome but the way it's expressed matters a lot when other people will be forming opinions from it.


Say that to e.e. cummings' face!


While the style of e.e. cummings is definitely heterodox, it isn't a perfect analogy in this case because:

(a) his style is internally consistent with itself, instead of being a scattering of random mistakes,

(b) while his style is different, he doesn't do anything that majorly impedes readability, and

(c) he uses the style for a particular artistic effect, instead of just using it because he is too lazy to press SHIFT.


"E. E. Cummings", actually.

http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/caps.htm




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