why is most EL code ugly?

[gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Gary Funck)]

I think some of the poor appearance of Easy Language code is
attributable to:
  1) the 64K limitation on system size imposed by TS 4 and below.
     It's my understanding that blank spaces and commment lines
     are counted into the total.
  2) the Power Editor doesn't have a "pretty print" or indentation
     function (or does it?).
  3) there's no "open" facility for popping out of Power Editor and
     into a more powerful editor, except for select-all, Copy/Paste,
     and that's a pain.
  4) most traders aren't programmers, most programmers aren't traders.

Maybe #1 will go away as a restriction in TS5.

(back in the 70's, there was a language called SNOBOL, and a package
written to crunch all the spaces out of a SNOBOL program, called
ICEBOL, which helped the SNOBOL compiler run faster (I guess).
Technology has an answer for everything. :)).


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