Being consistent is the key. When you open up a codebase worked on by 50 people, it's nice when you can't tell who wrote it because of the spelling or whatever

Being consistent is the key. When you open up a codebase worked on by 50 people, it's nice when you can't tell who wrote it because of the spelling or whatever. Everyone on the team can see it, think "this looks like I wrote it", and work on it accordingly. That's a good thing.