From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d95b511473b3a931 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d95b511473b3a931 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,d95b511473b3a931 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: john@assen.demon.co.uk (John McCabe) Subject: Re: Language Choice and Coding style Date: 1996/07/02 Message-ID: <836339561.14712.3@assen.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 163353023 x-nntp-posting-host: assen.demon.co.uk references: <4quk22$78@krusty.irvine.com> <4r059t$2at0@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-07-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote: >Peter Herman says >"for one thing i have an extreme antipathy: >the enforcement of rules which do not have a useful justification. >if someone chooses for himself to carve all in CAPS, he may >freely do so, but he should not bother me to request this from me." >However, a useful justification for rules is consistency, sometimes we >have to make an arbitrary decision whose ONLY justification is >consistency, and anyone who finds that unacceptable will not be >welcome in a team where consistency is considered critically important. Interesting point - for a sample of consistency (or rather not), check out the TLD Mil-Std-1750A RTS code. Best Regards John McCabe