Coding standards are code formatting conventions. They specify rules for the placement of braces and whitespace among other things.
Different people have different coding styles.
This can make it difficult for a programmer to read another programmer's code. It can also make it difficult for automated tools to analyse code. To solve these problems, organizations enforce coding standards. If all of the programmers in a group agree on a set of coding standards, then they can all learn to read each other's code quickly and use text analysis tools to automate certain tasks. For example, Sun has its own coding standards .