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K&R style (along with the old C syntax) I figure makes the most sense if you consider writing stuff line-by-line on a teletype with ed; it keeps the lines short.

>You look at Chuck Moore and Ken Thompson and you see something a little more, like, it's legible but there's been not much effort put into how it looks on the page: what are they optimizing for, what makes that style of code look better to them?
When I look at Bell Labs code I usually get the idea that whoever was writing it cared more about just getting the program out than getting it to look nice. I hearken back to when I had to write Java for CS classes and I didn't care how sloppy it looked 'cause it compiled fine and I wanted to move on with my life.