Having a look at the engineering requirements there are guidelines that I've seen that are used by medium to large scale organisation just simply to manage the

Having a look at the engineering requirements there are guidelines that I've seen that are used by medium to large scale organisation just simply to manage the project and code base. Some of them seem to be universal such as statistic code analysis, heave use of sticking to a sub-set of the language that is well defined (Deterministic behavior). Sticking to a over-all coding convention and naming convention. Modulation of the code-base. Avoidance to thread's mutating the state of shared objects between threads (Share state between threads only in a single location eg.. IPC). Similar thing happened with java API with the designers attempting to make the language library thread safe. They soon discovered that was a real bad idea and backed off from that very fast. At work I joke with my collegue's about the java framework they use they've now moved back to static enum's and static control id's for web pages instead of dynamically generating them on the fly. It's to a point where I feel like I'm programming win32 gui's all over again.