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Ask Slashdot: Do Coding Standards Make a Difference?
An anonymous reader writes "Every shop I've ever worked in has had a 'Coding Style' document that dictates things like camelCase vs underscored_names, placement of curly braces, tabs vs spaces, etc. As a result, I've lost hundreds of hours in code reviews because some pedant was more interested in picking nits over whitespace than actually reviewing my algorithms. Are there any documents or studies that show a net productivity gain for having these sorts of standards? If not, why do we have them? We live in the future, why don't our tools enforce these standards automagically?"
Programmer doesn't like the coding standards that someone else set, decided to whine about it on slashdot.
Yes, having consistent code makes a difference, it lets you make more assumptions when reading code. If you can't manage to even manage to follow a simple style guide, you're probably doing all kinds of other sloppy things that are unwanted in the code.
Man up and spend a little while getting used to it, and using it properly.
From the summary:
" I've lost hundreds of hours in code reviews because some pedant was more interested in picking nits over whitespace than actually reviewing my algorithms. "
Aww, baby is whining about inconvenience because baby wants to do things only baby's way even though there are guidelines and standards to follow. baby doesn't like to conform to standards other than his own, even if it means that everybody else loses hundreds of hours having to adapt to his style--which they won't, for long if baby keeps being difficult and stubborn.
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man gofmt
In many shops, this will generate an error:
'man' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\Users\Programmer1>
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
You're probably the finicky person who keeps complaining about my rot13 variable names. To each their own, buddy.
No. No fucking citation is needed. Go back under the bridge and play with yourself some more.
(I know, I know, it means you must be a PHP developer)