Random Programming Thoughts

It took me a much longer time than I'm proud of to see a difference between bad programming practice and different stylistic convention. Like the whole where-do-you-put-the-curly-brackets argument (when I programmed in C++, I put them on lines by themselves -- it made it easier to handle #IF/#IFDEF preprocessor instructions, and I still think it's easier to visually parse the code structure. But now that I program in Java, I follow the Sun conventions).

Every once in a while, I see something and try to figure out if it's bad programming or just different. ( Thoughts )