Do you recall a situation when, at the beginning of the project, your team, after many days of intense discussions, finally established coding standards that everyone agreed to follow? You thoroughly discussed rules regarding capitalization, spacing, indentation, line lengths, etc. You nearly came to blows over whether the comma should be placed at the beginning […]
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