Kristian Dupont Knudsen writes about the top ten of programming advice not to follow. I mostly agree, although not with point 7: Make sure your team shares a common coding standard. I am a strong advocate of coding standards. And I admit - it's also because style and aesthetics are important to me (see - I use Macs and drive an Audi). Call me nit picky if you like, I can live with that. There are few things I hate more than code that looks messy. When I look at a piece of code I don't want to see how many people have screwed around with it just by counting the different coding styles used. I want my source code to look like a piece of art. Because my software, like any artifact of great engineering, is a piece of art. And the source code reflects that. That's why my company has a coding style guide.
Posted by guenter at February 13, 2006 03:28 PM