From: Kero van Gelder <kero@...4050.upc-d.chello.nl>
Date: 2001-10-25T01:43:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23205] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby

> > Coding guidelines are some way of managers to get control.
> 
> Nonsense. The managers won't care in the least. The poor bastard that
> has to maintain other peoples code will.

The ppl in my project that set up the coding guidelines were of the
managerial type.

Those poor bastards will often be poor bastards, still, because other
ppl used different guidelines. The world is a big place.

> They're not _alternatives_, they're _complimentary_.

Definitely. Beware that the most important aspects do not get lost
because they're too obvious.

> > That's a huge part of the problem in Software Engineering.
> > It's psychological, not mathematical.
> 
> I don't understand this point. Coding standards aren't mathematical
> either.

That's why we argue over them.

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