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Yes. I've even heard people justify their haphazard, random formatting by parroting the old "the compiler doesn't care about formatting" line they heard from the instructor at the technical college on the first day of their language course.

If the compiler was the only other entity with which you're collaborating on a project, fine. But in the real world other humans have to read your garbage.



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