You know, if there's one thing I hate, it's a set of rigid coding conventions. They're the joy of the petty and officious and the bane of people who just want

You know, if there's one thing I hate, it's a set of rigid coding conventions. They're the joy of the petty and officious and the bane of people who just want to get things done. This isn't an excuse to get rid of them altogether. It's an argument for not taking coding conventions so seriously.