Re: Alignment Nazi?

"Avdi Grimm" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.language-of-the-year
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Ged Byrne <[email protected]> wrote:
> In some ways I prefer it when developers use their own style.  It
> allows you to gain an instinctive feel for who wrote what code.

Of course, if you can consistently tell who wrote a given piece of
code, it tends to indicate that you're not practicing collective code
ownership.  Having different parts of the codebase that are "owned" by
different people - and hence only really understood by their owner -
can be a maintainability problem.

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