[9fans] Style guide for clean code

[9fans] Style guide for clean code

[Kyrre Nygård]

	Hello again all!

	Does Plan9 offer a style guide similar to the kernel normal form 
found in the BSD operating systems; 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_Normal_Form? Since Plan9 people 
dislike GNU and BSD because their code is bloated, and like 
themselves because their code isn't, I was wondering if they had a 
structured approach to their simplicity.

	Also, maybe a few paragraphs on the disadvantages of bloated code 
similar to http://www.wmii.de?

Thanks a lot,
Kyrre

Re: [9fans] Style guide for clean code

[William K. Josephson]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 09:46:28AM +0200, Kyrre Nyg?rd wrote:
> 	Does Plan9 offer a style guide similar to the kernel normal form 
> found in the BSD operating systems; 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_Normal_Form? Since Plan9 people 
> dislike GNU and BSD because their code is bloated, and like 
> themselves because their code isn't, I was wondering if they had a 
> structured approach to their simplicity.

Not really, although you might have a look at:

	http://swtch.com/~rsc/worknotes

I'll second the recommendation of The Practice of Programming.

Also:
	http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/pikestyle.html
 
> 	Also, maybe a few paragraphs on the disadvantages of bloated code 
> similar to http://www.wmii.de?

Isn't that rather self-evident?

 -WJ

Re: [9fans] Style guide for clean code

[Gabriel Diaz]

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Hello

you can search the 9fans archives for a lot of discussion about this, also
take a look at

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/How_to_contribute/index.html
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/papers/.

I would suggest to use /sys/src as a guide. If your code looks like the one
is there, probably fits the plan9 style :).

gabi


On 10/11/06, Kyrre Nygård <kyrreny@broadpark.no> wrote:
>
>
>         Hello again all!
>
>         Does Plan9 offer a style guide similar to the kernel normal form
> found in the BSD operating systems;
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_Normal_Form? Since Plan9 people
> dislike GNU and BSD because their code is bloated, and like
> themselves because their code isn't, I was wondering if they had a
> structured approach to their simplicity.
>
>         Also, maybe a few paragraphs on the disadvantages of bloated code
> similar to http://www.wmii.de?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Kyrre
>
>

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Re: [9fans] Style guide for clean code

[Kyrre Nygård]

Thanks a lot guys, this really helped :)

At 09:56 11.10.2006, Gabriel Diaz wrote:
>Hello
>
>you can search the 9fans archives for a lot of 
>discussion about this, also take a look at
>
><http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/How_to_contribute/index.html>http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/How_to_contribute/index.html 
>
>http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/papers/.
>
>I would suggest to use /sys/src as a guide. If 
>your code looks like the one is there, probably fits the plan9 style :).
>
>gabi
>
>
>On 10/11/06, Kyrre Nygård 
><<mailto:kyrreny@broadpark.no>kyrreny@broadpark.no> wrote:
>
>         Hello again all!
>
>         Does Plan9 offer a style guide similar to the kernel normal form
>found in the BSD operating systems;
><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_Normal_Form>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_Normal_Form 
>? Since Plan9 people
>dislike GNU and BSD because their code is bloated, and like
>themselves because their code isn't, I was wondering if they had a
>structured approach to their simplicity.
>
>         Also, maybe a few paragraphs on the disadvantages of bloated code
>similar to <http://www.wmii.de>http://www.wmii.de?
>
>Thanks a lot,
>Kyrre
>