This is nonsense. The code quality is determined by the author, just like today.
> Nowadays, we have linter
I was using a C linter in 1986. The tooling is better now but it still comes down to the author.
> Nowadays, we have linter
I was using a C linter in 1986. The tooling is better now but it still comes down to the author.
Putting BEGIN..END around a one line block was always a contention since it wasn't required. Less code vs arguably more readable code (Pascal)
If BLA Then
Begin
DO STUFF
End
If BLA Then
DO STUFFThis is nonsense. The worst authors can still produce bad code with the best tools and the best authors can still produce good code with the worst tools, but most authors are somewhere in the middle, and tooling makes a huge difference to the average.