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Coding Standards don't solve every problem and should thereby not be implemented? The truly evil thing about coding standards is what they do to your heart, yo
by VMG 14y ago
Coding Standards don't solve every problem and should thereby not be implemented?
The truly evil thing about coding standards is what they do to your heart, your team’s heart. They are a little message that you are not good enough. You cannot quite be trusted. Without adult supervision, you’ll mess up.
No, they simply are conventions making it easier to communicate and understand each others code.
Please go write some code instead. You know who you are.
Yup.
- gte910h 14y ago>No, they simply are conventions making it easier to communicate and understand each others code. A 1 page coding standard picking which common conventions people use perhaps is making it easier to communicate, maybe. A 10 page coding standard with lots of positive manual actions a coder must do at ever step that don't necessarily add to the process (I'm looking at contracts in private functions and hungarian especially), or that are outdated and not state of the art, is positively soul-killing to many people. Most places need code reviews, not coding standards.