I agree with you on 8) I don't see why it matters so much what style of braces are used as long as the block of code and I currently looking as it consistent.

I agree with you on 8) I don't see why it matters so much what style of braces are used as long as the block of code and I currently looking as it consistent. If future developers object that badly, there is also many many auto formatters out their to fix it. the article is clearly rather dated, and a number of the points (as jws notes) are rather irrelevant now.