github/objective-c-conventions — pull request #5 by fileability (2012-09-27 19:45:11+00:00)
Title: Simplified and removed unnecessary rules.

There is a tendency when writing coding conventions to treat programmers as computers who, if given exactly the right instructions, will produce the desired output. So authors lump in more and more rules, in the quest for absolute consistency.

Unfortunately (for coding convention authors) programmers are not machines, and will not do what you tell them to. They will keep doing what they've always done, unless their boss forces them to follow the rules.

And if they are forced to, what then? Instead of worrying about the code they're writing, the programmers must worry about whether they have fulfilled the ever evolving set of coding conventions.

Any good programmer, the kind that I'm sure GitHub employs, will alter the styling of the code they write to match what's already there. And - as human beings - they will not perform this task 100% perfectly. Nor should they try to.

If you actually need absolute consistency in how your code is styled, instead of wasting the time of highly paid people, why not write a computer program to do it?