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Tools for enforcing coding guidelines?

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  • C charlieg

    Okay, so the team I'm working with has decided to go all process and that. Don't get me wrong, they are a good team, I just have reservations about having perfect source code and no product. They were set loose to derive a document for coding - 60+ pages later, I am afraid. Any recommendations for reasonably affordable tools that could be set up to cull the drudge work? Still searching - sort of - I've been working on code.

    Charlie Gilley You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759

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    60 pages?, at 6 pages I would have been deeply worried... :omg:

    CEO at: - Rafaga Systems - Para Facturas - Modern Components for the moment...

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      Have you tried a baseball bat? The use of this tool quickly makes people adhere to standards. If that fails, try lobotomies. Your BF quote in you signature block:

      charlieg wrote:

      They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety

      is a fair summary of what adherence to arbitrarily derived guidelines is about - giving up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety. If we had adhered to guidelines, all of our code would still be daubs of blood and plant extracts on cave walls. People need freedom to experiment and to advance. That is how progress takes place.

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      I've used the baseball bat approach. (No really I have) and it worked well for about a month. Even within that month I saw the slip back to old habits. You cannot force people to write good code.

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        See Kodak Motivational Carrot[^] lower on the page.

        Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.

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          60 pages?, at 6 pages I would have been deeply worried... :omg:

          CEO at: - Rafaga Systems - Para Facturas - Modern Components for the moment...

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          Happily I have learned that they have agreed to reducing it from 62 pages to under 3. That's a serious reduction.

          Charlie Gilley You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759

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