> but sometimes I wonder if everyone just writes certain things the same way > For the above rangeCheck function, there isn't much opportunity for the individu

> but sometimes I wonder if everyone just writes certain things the same way > For the above rangeCheck function, there isn't much opportunity for the individual programmer to be creative. We are at a point at which compilers detect such functions and replace them with highly optimized ones. If you have to artificially change just for the sake of patent or license trolls you don't just get more work but also worse performance/optimizations in most cases.