On Saturday 17 June 2006 10:37, John Adams wrote: I trimmed p5p, as this is off-topic there.
> As long as I can read your code, and you can > read mine, why should we both write the same way? Because you're not writing for yourselves. You're writing for each other and everyone else on your team. > I'm much more productive if I can write things in a way that feels right to > *me*, and any employer wants their people to be productive, right? If I were your employer, I would want you and all of your co-workers to be productive *together*. If your individual productivity does not help the whole team, it is useless to the team. Again, I have no interest in hiring or working with monkeys or cowboys who cannot read code and who cannot or will not write code per the team's guidelines, in the same way I have no interest in hiring nor working with a financial manager who cannot or will not balance the accounts. Perhaps a project without such onerous guidelines will succeed by luck, but I prefer a modicum of common sense preparation to avoid the most obvious problems in software development. -- c
