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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 16:20:24 +0100
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On 13.03.2025 15:19, Michael S wrote:
>>>>>>>>> The usual suspects wrote:  
>>>>>>>> [...]  
>>>>>>>>>> Mathematicians come in two varieties: those who are oblivious
>>>>>>>>>> to ambiguity and those who relish it. This i situation goes
>>>>>>>>>> unnoticed by the former, and pleases the latter.  
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Mathematicians come in two varieties - those that can count,
>>>>>>>>> and those that can't count.  
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Mathematicians come in three varieties - those that can count,
>>>>>>>> and those that can't count.  The third variety is left as an
>>>>>>>> exercise for the student.  
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There are two sorts of people.  Those that can infer from
>>>>>>> missing data.  
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There are 10 kinds of people, people who know binary and those
>>>>>> who don't.  
>>>>>
>>>>> There are 01 kinds of people, those who understand little-endian
>>>>> notation and those who don't.  
>>>>
>>>> There are '\0002' kinds of people: those who understand that a C
>>>> octal character escape is restricted to three digits, and those who
>>>> drag their knuckles on the ground when they try to walk on their
>>>> hind legs.
>>>
>>> There are two sorts of people - those that can be divided into two
>>> sorts of people, and those that can't.  
>>
>> There are two sorts of people: unstable sorts, which leave identical
>> twins in an unpredictable order, and stable sorts, which preserve
>> their original order.
> 
> There are two sorts of people: those that find jokes about two sorts of
> people amusing and myself.

Amassed they might look boring, especially if they follow the same
building principle. But there's various types here, and that's nice.
Personally I like the recursive one a lot! (It also reminds me the
"Life of Brian" movie concerning individuals.)

Janis