"Style" is more than indentation - my favourite example is something I worked with very closely, but always needed a cheat-sheet on my desk - the PHP arrays api.
Just look at the docs for array_search and array_replace.
This is much worse in managed memory languages - do you allocate memory, who frees it, who can use a buffer in zero-copy mode, who can't ... whether the functions are always re-entrant.
All that said - any originating coder who burns out due to support issues, killing the community is measurably worse off than someone who has thousands of users who demand that you support such "legacy" APIs for another six months.
"Style" is more than indentation - my favourite example is something I worked with very closely, but always needed a cheat-sheet on my desk - the PHP arrays api.
Just look at the docs for array_search and array_replace.
This is much worse in managed memory languages - do you allocate memory, who frees it, who can use a buffer in zero-copy mode, who can't ... whether the functions are always re-entrant.
All that said - any originating coder who burns out due to support issues, killing the community is measurably worse off than someone who has thousands of users who demand that you support such "legacy" APIs for another six months.