I dunno :-( I think there's a permanent tension between creativity and norms... But my guess is that not everyone is wants to cope with that. Not everyone wants

I dunno :-( I think there's a permanent tension between creativity and norms... But my guess is that not everyone is wants to cope with that. Not everyone wants to discover yet a new solution, yet a new style each time he reads some code. Personally, I love that but given the success of, say, Java, I'd say there are people who prefers more guidelines. And this has nothing to do with IQ or coding skills or anything, it's just personality I think.