Making Wrong Code Look Wrong : "It's at this point you
typically say, 'Blistering Barnacles, we've got to get some
consistent coding conventions around here!' and you spend the
next day writing up coding conventions for your team and the
next six days arguing about the One True Brace Style and the
next three weeks rewriting old code to conform to the One True
Brace Style until a manager catches you and screams at you for
wasting time on something that can never make money, and you
decide that it's not really a bad thing to only reformat code
when you revisit it, so you have about half of a True Brace
Style and pretty soon you forget all about that and then you can
start obsessing about something else irrelevant to making money
like replacing one kind of string class with another kind of
string class."For an alternative perspective, take a look
the section in "How To
Write Unmaintainable Code" on
Hungarian
Notation: "Hungarian Notation is the tactical nuclear
weapon of source code obfuscation techniques; use it! Due to the
sheer volume of source code contaminated by this idiom nothing
can kill a maintenance engineer faster than a well planned
Hungarian Notation attack. The following tips will help you
corrupt the original intent of Hungarian Notation..."
