Why Are Coding Conventions Important?
You might wonder why we have conventions at all if nobody can agree on them. The reason, in a word, is consistency. At a minimum, code should be consistent with itself. This means that if you have multiple developers working on a given application, they should all be following the same rules. This can happen only if the rules are documented and agreed upon.
Ideally, all the code in an organization is consistent—although in practical terms, this virtually never happens. If the code that’s currently being written is consistent with code that’s developed in other departments, developers are more portable within the organization.
Coding conventions also affect code maintenance. Over the lifetime of a given application, ...
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