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Here's a great talk that addresses style vs. standards in the context of NASA and space flight software.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotdep12/workshop-program/...

He presents a compelling case for why you should use automated tools to check compliance against coding standards (the standards don't do you any good otherwise).

As far as style goes, pipe your code through indent if you have hangups about formatting. That way you can spend your time on issues that are known to be correlated with risk.



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