Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree. --Professor W. Managers of programming projects aren’t always aware that certain programming issues are matters of religion. If you’re a manager and you try to require compliance with certain programming practices, you’re inviting your programmers’ ire. Here’s a list of religious issues: ■ Programming language ■ Indentation style ■ Placing of braces ■ Choice of IDE ■ Commenting style ■ Efficiency vs. readability tradeoffs ■ Choice of methodology—for example, Scrum vs. Extreme Programming vs. evolutionary delivery ■ Programming utilities ■ Naming conventions ■ Use of gotos ■ Use of global variables ■ Measurements, especially productivity measures such as lines of code per day --Steve McConnell The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment. --Theodore H. White Happiness should be a function without any parameters. --Pranshu Midha
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