Transactional File Mgt. The primary reason to use coding conventions is to increase the readability and maintainability of your ASP code. Most developers cannot decipher their own code around six months after it has been written and last used. By religiously adhering to a strict set of coding guidelines, code is easier to read and understand.
Good code is self-documenting code.
This means that your code should use variable names which reflect both their data type and purpose. Functions should have meaningful names as well. Your SQL tables and column names should be meaningful as well. One could not make heads or tails of this code without seeing the function declarations. This code is much more readable, and it is obvious that we are finding the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle given the lengths of the two bases.