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)