Does Coding Style Matter?

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 27, 2012 @06:42AM from the obfuscate-half-and-document-the-other-half dept.

theodp writes "Over at Smashing Magazine, Nicholas C. Zakas makes the case for Why Coding Style Matters. 'Coding style guides are an important part of writing code as a professional,' Zakas concludes. 'Whether you're writing JavaScript or CSS or any other language, deciding how your code should look is an important part of overall code quality. If you don't already have a style guide for your team or project, it's worth the time to start one.' So, how are coding style guidelines working (or not) in your world?"

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Re:It's easy with an IDE by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-27 06:57 · Score: 5, Informative

... and it makes version control diffs shorter and to the point.
Re:Kinda Subjective but... by icebraining · 2012-10-27 08:25 · Score: 5, Informative

one of these guys is using Comic Sans as his coding font, as he's dyslexic and it helps him
Has he looked into fonts designed to help dyslexics, like Gill Dyslexic and Open-Dyslexic?

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