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<DIV><SPAN class=847451005-30052005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2><EM>re-sent (apologies for dupes):</EM></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=847451005-30052005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=847451005-30052005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=847451005-30052005>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=917214623-29052005>Utter<SPAN class=847451005-30052005>ly</SPAN> must read
:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html">http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=917214623-29052005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Not
necessarily follow, but do read.<BR>Its got a whole assload of stuff that you
just <EM>do</EM> both</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=917214623-29052005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>consciously and subconsciously as a developer</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=917214623-29052005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>And he
puts it all into words that human beans can </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=917214623-29052005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>understand.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=917214623-29052005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=917214623-29052005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>It
also has links to the best of m$'s developers' current</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=917214623-29052005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>thoughts on the rights and wrongs of hungarian<SPAN
class=847451005-30052005> </SPAN>(basically </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=917214623-29052005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>everyone </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=917214623-29052005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>uses it wrongly : it should highlight type = <EM>kind
</EM></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=917214623-29052005>of </SPAN><SPAN class=917214623-29052005>var rather
than the Type = <EM>datatype. </EM>The example </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN class=917214623-29052005>they
use </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=917214623-29052005>is that an integer </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=917214623-29052005>co-ordinate should have a different
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><FONT
color=#0000ff><SPAN class=917214623-29052005>prefix to
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=917214623-29052005>an integer </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=917214623-29052005>counter</SPAN><SPAN
class=917214623-29052005>).</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=917214623-29052005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=917214623-29052005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>And
once you've read it, you'll probably want to roll your own </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=917214623-29052005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>anyway
:)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=917214623-29052005></SPAN><SPAN
class=917214623-29052005></SPAN><SPAN class=917214623-29052005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=917214623-29052005>From
the article :</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=917214623-29052005></SPAN><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT
color=#0000ff>"</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT color=#0000ff>“It’s at this point you
typically say, ‘Blistering Barnacles, we’ve <EM>got</EM> 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.”</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=917214623-29052005>"</SPAN></FONT></FONT><BR><BR></DIV></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>Nahum.Wild<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, 29 May 2005 12:55
p.m.<BR><B>To:</B> 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi
List'<BR><B>Subject:</B> [DUG] Query: Coding / Syntax
standards<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><SPAN class=447395100-29052005><FONT face=Verdana size=2>We
are trying to re-establish and modernise our coding and syntax standards here
at PayGlobal and before I go down the path of duplicating someone else's work
does anyone know of good resources of the net for this with respect to
Delphi? Free preferably where I could download a doc and modify it to
suit our needs. The coding and syntax can be
seperate.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV align=left><SPAN class=447395100-29052005><FONT face=Verdana
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><SPAN class=447395100-29052005><FONT face=Verdana size=2>I've
done a bit of googling but come up empty.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV align=left><SPAN class=447395100-29052005></SPAN> </DIV>
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