Programming Conventions
In high-quality software, you can see a relationship between the conceptual integrity of the architecture and its low-level implementation. The implementation must be consistent with the architecture that guides it and consistent internally. That's the point of construction guidelines for variable names, class names, routine names, formatting conventions, and commenting conventions.
Cross-Reference
For more details on the power of conventions, see The Power of Naming Conventions through Standardized Prefixes.
In a complex program, architectural guidelines give the program structural balance and construction guidelines provide low-level harmony, articulating each class as a faithful part of a comprehensive design. Any large ...
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