Excellent article over at SitePoint about why programmers should adhere to coding standards. I can’t recall a time in myshort life where I was ever presented with documentation on how to code in an organization. That is probably why it was always a bitch trying to maintain someone else’s code.

This article is written by a 16 year old kid. When I was 16 I wasn’t in front of the computer and I definitely wasn’t this damn ambitious. Props to him.

There’s nothing worse than inheriting an application or needing to make changes to code that requires a lot of energy to decipher – you end up trawling through lines and lines of code that doesn’t make its purpose or intentions clear. Looking through unfamiliar code is much easier if it is laid out well and everything is neatly commented with details that explain any complicated constructs and the reasoning behind them.

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