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- From: nfegan@apcc.com (Noel Fegan)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Coding Standards
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 14:00:35 GMT
- Organization: American Power Conversion
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- rmorin@inforamp.net (Randy Charles Morin) wrote:
-
- >The company I just started a contract with gave me a set of C++ coding
- >standards. I started reading and couldn't stop laughing. I can't reproduce
- >them word-for-word, because that wouldn't be nice to the authors and might be
- >considered a copyright violation or privacy violation, but I'll outline some
- >of the points.
-
- Most of these rules/guidelines are the same as those which appear in the
- "Ellemtel: Programming in C++, Rules and Recommendations" document available at
- the following Web page: "http://www.takn.is/c++/ellemtel.html"
-
- I would have to say that I can see the reason for a lot of these rules. Having a
- lot of experience with C++ some of them are a bit limiting if enforced rigidly.
- However, you must consider that, even if some of the rules seem laughable, when
- you think about them, and realise that the main purpose of them is to restrict
- the damage that an inexperienced programmer can do, and to standardize the code
- that is written by different developers.
-
- Humility is part and parcel of being a good programmer...
- --
- Noel Fegan
- European Software Development Department
- American Power Conversion
- I don't speak for APC...
- nfegan@apcc.com
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