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From: Bill Findlay <news@findlayw.plus.com>
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Subject: Re: AWS Coding Styles (and about boring plain-linear text files in
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 01:43:07 +0000
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On 18/01/2011 00:58, in article
3077fffa-eed7-4763-8bca-9ac3bb0a41e1@o14g2000prn.googlegroups.com, "Adam
Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com> wrote:
 
> Then again, I've never had much use for style guides, especially when
> they're enforced.  I think I do a good job of being sensitive to
> others who might read my source, and writing in a way that makes it
> easier on them; sometimes strict rules can actually prevent me from
> doing the best job of this, especially since the one who writes the
> rules may not have thought about every possible circumstance.

I absolutely agree with this.

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Bill Findlay
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