Date: 25 Nov 2002 12:54:56 -0800 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Style(9) question Message-ID: <f17kf18j4v.kf1@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20021124100846.GC51850@raggedclown.net> References: <20021122193040.GA23078@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20021122214405.GA11011@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <8gof8g83w4.f8g@localhost.localdomain> <20021124090603.GA3172@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20021124100846.GC51850@raggedclown.net>
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Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net> writes: > [snip] This basically meant everyone ignored them (I think actually > that nobody read them). More common, from my experience, is good-old-boy, wink-of-the-eye variable enforcement of standards, so that standards are learned and followed best by the persons who recieve the most frequent and severe sanctions for violations. (And to a lesser degree, by those with the least pressure to produce working code.) The system obviously has some practical merit, but it often results in a lot of unhappy programmers. This is one reason for very strict enforcement of standards -- even automated systems -- so that favoritism doesn't rear it's ugly head. Of course, it tends to slow down and ire the most productive coders. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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