I agree with the major points in the post, and even think that code format guidelines like K&R for C, PEP8 for Python, and jslint for Javascript should be freel

I agree with the major points in the post, and even think that code format guidelines like K&R for C, PEP8 for Python, and jslint for Javascript should be freely broken by experienced programmers whenever the beauty of the code is unambiguously improved. Incidentally I just checked out the redis code base. Gorgeous: https://github.com/antirez/redis/tree/unstable/src https://github.com/antirez/redis/tree/unstable/src