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Sadly most sorce code follows the exact opposite convention - starting with legalese, followed by boring initialisation. I wish more source code would come to the point right at the start, and I am thankful for the new acronym BLUF that expresses this concept quite clearly.


Maybe in languages without declaration hoisting, you could go with BLOB: Bottom Line On Back.




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