{Sajith M}: March 2005

Coding Standards

Any Advantages?

Though at initial stages it seems like a burden to follow standard, its advantages become visible once the software grows to few thousand lines spanning few hundred files. Some of the advantages are:

Programmer feels comfortable with the code written by others, as it is similar to what he himself would have written.
Person joining the group at later stage can pickup the code easily (once he is familiar with the standards).

So says http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~karkare/Gc/coding/

Whom to follow?
It's hard to argue that any one system has a huge advantage over any other system. But consistency on some of these things has a big advantage over inconsistency: everyone on a team can read code easily and make parts of the system refer to other parts of the system easily.
Hmm.. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CodingStandard

The solution
Get the first draft done, and then work on it till you are satisfied.

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)