In the previous century I worked at a company that offered a SQL database, and the mandatory coding standard included: - Maximum of six characters for any func

In the previous century I worked at a company that offered a SQL database, and the mandatory coding standard included: - Maximum of six characters for any function name. Three characters for the category and three for the actual function. Imagine a code base where every function has a name like strcmp, strlen, etc. So you might have a name like sqlijn for an inner join. - 80 column line limit, with the first 40 columns reserved for code, and the second 40 columns for a comment. A comment was required on every line of code. So yes indeed, you might see this classic: ++i; /* increment i */ I was hired to build a Windows GUI for the database, and I explained that Windows API functions had much longer names and I was going to run out of room to do much in 40 columns. Thankfully, they gave me special dispensation to follow Windows conventions in the Windows code.