On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:11:18 +0200, bearophile <[email protected]>
wrote:
Mark Chu-Carroll is a first class programmer and more. He's leaving
Google and writes about what's good in it. Here he explains in a very
simple way why coding standards are good:
http://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath/2011/07/14/stuff-everyone-should-do-part-2-coding-standards/
He talks just about the coding standards of one firm, so he forgets to
talk about a related but in my opinion equally important point. If I
take a look at Delphi code, C code, C++ code, I see everything, every
coding style, naming convention, and many other differences, that make
me harder to read and understand their code.
If I take a look at Python code written by ten different people I see
much more uniformity. This uniformity is part of the Python culture, its
PEP8 http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ ) is a coding standard
that instead of being just Google-wide is language-wide. This allows me
to understand Python code in less time, to copy and use functions,
classes, modules, packages and libraries written by other people and use
them in my code (in C# the situation is intermediate. I see more
uniformity compared to C++ code, but less than Python code).
Go language even comes with a source code formatter that is used often
to format code. I think they have learnt well that Google lesson :-)
Even Scala seems about to do something similar:
http://drdobbs.com/article/print?articleId=231001802&siteSectionName=
Gods, not this again. Short version: No.
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Simen
