I'm surprised at the backlash I see here. Doesn't your eye start twitching if someone used the wrong number of spaces in a source file? This is coding style f

I'm surprised at the backlash I see here. Doesn't your eye start twitching if someone used the wrong number of spaces in a source file? This is coding style for the physical world. This is far less oppressive than any "SCRUM" I've had to deal with (or whatever the latest trendy name for XP is). It's easy to see shop rules as overly controlling, until you've had to work in a shop for a few weeks or months and seen things get completely out of control. It's no different than working on a software project. Non-programmers (and beginners) will try writing a 30-line program, without knowing any of the best-practice conventions that experienced programmers know about. Then they post their mess on StackOverflow to get help. What's the first comment? Always: "We can't read this. Fix your indentation! Fix your capitalization! Remove those unused variables!" In other words, knoll that source code.