10 Mar
2025
10 Mar
'25
6:56 p.m.
On Mar 10, 2025, at 9:30 AM, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
Long ago I worked in a startup, and early on the developers got
together and wrote up a coding style to use. A year later a new
guy came on board, who refused to follow it. It was then
easy to see when what's-his-name had touched a part of the code. (I forgot
what his name was.) Quite annoying.
Most every company where I worked did this (agreed upon a coding style).
One of my best engineers, who usually said very little, preferred a very
different style but he set up scripts so that in the editor he saw *his*
favorite style and before checking in a file he ran indent to conform to
the agreed upon style.