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I often find that there is usually one person very invested in the standards and it is more of an extension of their need to control their life and environment
by scottshea 15y ago
I often find that there is usually one person very invested in the standards and it is more of an extension of their need to control their life and environment rather than making things readable. Often I see things as more than opinion rather than absolutes (although no indentations is probably an absolute no-no).
I once worked at a company where code reviews devolved into stylistic debates. We would spend hours witnessing style arguments without ever noticing that a variable was undeclared or a header file forgotten.
- normalocity 15y agoYup - exactly the kind of think I'm talking about. I once had an employer ask me about coding standards (this was when we were a dev team of only two people, looking to grow), and the idea was to discuss a coding style document, and put it in place before our team got bigger. My initial reaction was, "I don't care about coding standards." However, what I discovered is that I did care quite a lot about it, but didn't care to argue about it.