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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Language Choice and Coding style
Date: 1996/06/28
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Date: 1996-06-28T00:00:00+00:00
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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.