Re: Coding standards. (Was: Re: [PATCH] [2.5] Non-blocking write can block)

[Jesse Pollard <jesse@cats-chateau.net>]

On Monday 09 June 2003 13:55, Timothy Miller wrote:
> Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
> > There's no such a thing as "horrible coding style", since coding style is
> > strictly personal. Whoever try to convince you that one style is better
> > than another one is simply plain wrong. Every reason they will give you
> > to justify one style can be wiped with other opposite reasons. The only
> > horrible coding style is to not respect coding standards when you work
> > inside a project. This is a form of respect for other people working
> > inside the project itself, give the project code a more professional look
> > and lower the fatigue of reading the project code. Jumping from 24
> > different coding styles does not usually help this. I do not believe
> > professional developers can be scared by a coding style, if this is the
> > coding style adopted by the project where they have to work in.
>
> Oh, yes, there is most certainly "horrible coding style".  When I was in
> college, I met one CS student after another who really just did not
> belong in CS, and you should have seen the code they wrote.
>
> Imagine a 200 line program which is ALL inside of main().  There is no
> indenting.  Lines of code are broken in random places.  Blank lines are
> inserted randomly.  The variable names chosen are a, b, c, d, e, etc.
> It's impossible to tell which '{' is associated with which '}'.
>
> It's been a while.  I can't remember all of the violations of reason and
> sanity I saw.  I pity the grad students who were faced with grading
> these monstrosities.

ummm been there... Actually, after the first 20 it got easy... If I couldn't
read it, it got an "F" (whether it worked or not).

If it could be read with difficulty (and worked) it got a D
If it could be read and worked it got a C
If it could be read and was clear (and worked) it got a B
If it was short, clear, and worked it got an A

And I have met some of the idiots (including Piled higher and Deeper ones) 
that couldn't program their way through a "hello there" program.