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Discussion on: Why Are Coding Standards Important?

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Thomas H Jones II

Coding standards also help with ensuring that code-linters work ...and, by extension, that your code is mostly going to do what you think it's going to do - whether under conditions you expected or didn't.

That said, some of the standards feel like they make it like a lot of a given programmer's "personality" is washed away.