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from working with a lot of older coders in my day, the "line conservation" method came mostly from very limited screen space back in the text interface days (like using vim).
Although I, myself, use the second method. To me, it gives more structure, and immediate snap to where the block begins and ends. Part of that may have come from trying to be efficient with my time. Since I've spent the large part of my professional career programming games in a near continuous crunch mode, quickly finding where blocks of code start and stop has taken priority over line efficiency.
Although with any religious faction, there are good points for either side.
I use the b method, since if you have a lot of if then else's it's easier to detect and count the braces...
And believe me the braces can be a jungle at times...