Agreed. Coding standards have nothing to do with "my way is better than yours". If you feel like they do, you should find new people to work with. It's all abou

Agreed. Coding standards have nothing to do with "my way is better than yours". If you feel like they do, you should find new people to work with. It's all about being able to view code consistently. At my previous employer (Large consumer electronics company doing embedded dev) we had a LOT of old code, or code we had originally gotten from third parties. We also had a fairly exacting coding standard. The coding standard made groking the 3+ million lines of code running your average TV MUCH MUCH easier. However, if you came onto a file that was written for some other coding standard and you dropped code into it that didn't match the style of that specific file you would probably not get a thumbs up rom a code review. In that situation we all understood it was far more important for all of the old crusty code in third party libs to have the same style even if it didn't match out own internal coding standard. Reading bodies of code with different conventions sprinkled throughout adds needless complexity to the task.