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Ask if they have a coding standard. If it's very picky about how comments are to be formatted, steer clear.
by MichaelCrawford 12y ago
Ask if they have a coding standard. If it's very picky about how comments are to be formatted, steer clear.
- seattle_spring 12y agoI would say the same question, but for the opposite reason. I can't stand seeing common things written in 20 different formats.
- MichaelCrawford 12y agoI had to contemplate my answer for a while. I agree that there should be coding standards, but perhaps I should have been more clear: it is common for shops that care a great deal about code formatting, not to care - perhaps not to even know - about coding standards which can avoid bugs. I had in mind specifically one shop that was very, very picky about its comments, but no one other than I had so much as heard of a C++ smart pointer.