Just use someone else’s coding convention already

If there’s one thing that’s bugged me throughout my entire coding career, it’s the fact that I can’t seem to stick to a single coding style for a given language. Scope decorators, braces, spacing around parentheses, Hungarian notation, variable and method naming conventions — there’s so many stupid and trivial things to think about, with so many exceptions and gotchas, that after a while it seems like you end up putting half as much time into figuring out how you’re going to write your program as you actually do designing and coding it. Months later, I’ll have an epiphany, and … Continue Reading →