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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7dd9b82cd363f55b,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" Subject: Coding Standards Date: 1996/05/15 Message-ID: <9605151401.AA04364@most>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 154944641 sender: Ada programming language comments: cc: ausnit@software.org, meier@pseserv3.fw.hac.com mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-05-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: If you haven't been following a recent "wordy" but interesting thread in comp.lang.ada, one of the participants made a pithy point that's worth repeating: "... goal should be coding standards that make it easy to read the code, not code that makes it necessary to read the coding standards." Indeed, if you can't understand or maintain the code without the standard, then the coding standard is not making the code more maintainable, is it? -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- W. Wesley Groleau (Wes) Office: 219-429-4923 Magnavox - Mail Stop 10-40 Home: 219-471-7206 Fort Wayne, IN 46808 elm (Unix): wwgrol@pseserv3.fw.hac.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------