Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 10:50:44 -0600 (MDT) From: Barnacle Wes <wes@intele.net> To: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk (Paul Richards) Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Indentation styles Message-ID: <199606011650.KAA04871@intele.net> In-Reply-To: <199605301252.NAA00083@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at May 30, 96 01:52:42 pm
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Robert Nordier asserted:
% Companies have coding style standards largely because they pay people to
% put up with them. _Maybe_ a free OS project shouldn't have the same
% because it doesn't necessarily do to treat volunteers like the hired help.
In the assertion failure message, Paul Richards asserted:
> Companies have coding standards because it's the only way to ensure that the
> next guy to look at the code has a chance of working out what the hell is
> going on.
Companies (such as mine) have coding standards because so many of
their programmers wouldn't now "good style" if it clubbed them over
the head, and can't be bothered to even emulate what they see. So
we have to club them over the head with rigid style guidelines to
make their code not look like some awful mish-mash.
If you took the top 5 programmers on my team of twelve and let them
code with whatever style they want, you'd get code that looks like
it came from one (perhaps slightly schizoid ;^) programmer. We're
really that close in personal style. The other 7 or so, however,
would revert to writing C++ programs that look like the basic
programs they used to print in Antic magazine -- within hours.
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