Here's some ideas and complaints. Return to articles list Return to TGG's home page Please subscribe to The Embedded Muse , a free biweekly e- newsletter with hints, ideas and rambles about firmware and hardware in embedded systems. No advertising, just down to earth embedded talk. Everyone agrees that some sort of style standard is needed, but few feel the standards should be enforced with the rigid discipline of a neo-fascist. Most want room for creative expression of their commenting, naming conventions, and the like.
Software written without the benefit of a uniform standard is immediately crippled.
It doesn't really matter what the standard is, as long as it is uniformly applied, and it strives to make the code more readable. Others agree to style standards in principle, but want to defer implementing a particular standard until we, as a software community, figure out what the best standard is. Every organization and pundit has a different solution. Sometimes it is better to just do something. This just does not wash.