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: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public From: peter.garner@toward.com (Crazy Pete) Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/16 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 433245744 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369DDDC3.FDE09999@sea.ericsson.se> <369e309a.32671759@news.demon.co.uk> <369F1D39.64A65BC1@sea.ericsson.se> <369f81a9.31040093@news.demon.co.uk> <77ommt$9bo$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: 16 Jan 1999 00:33:57 -0600, 208.19.232.170 Organization: Primary Network. http://www.primary.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java,comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > Any shop that cannot establish and enforce coding > conventions is out of control and should not be doing > any software production at all. Any programmer who is > uncomfortable with following an established set of > conventions is also out of control and should be got > rid of. The industry simply cannot afford such a level > of incompetence. Actually that is all a matter of opinion and also a matter of degree. I once worked at a C++ shop where they came up with some standard naming conventions, this seemed like a good idea and we followed them. Then the person who actually wrote the document decided that everyone should place their braces '{' in the manner in which she did and went to some incredible extremes in an attempt to enforce this. Everyone decided she was a nut and pretty much ignored her after that. Some people would say that is far too restrictive (some of the best programmers I know will refuse to work under such restrictive conditions) and others feel that the more rules the better. In any case it is certainly a matter of opinion and not one of incompetence. Peace Peter