> A very bright programer once worked for me who felt that
> "unnecessary <newlines> (CR/LF) and spaces got in the way (in 'C')"
> and further "longwinded names also got in the way" < started
> at 'a', 'b'......'z' then went to 'aa', 'ab'...'az' etc.>.


Then you have the guys who code that way in HTML:

New_Page_Boundary_Exception_Flag_Set_bit

and wonder why their web pages take half an hour to load.