On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:55 +0000 (UTC)
Martin Gregorie  wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 23:02:27 +0000, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>
> >  If there's an established code base and in-house expertise in a
> > language then you need a *damn* good reason to use anything else. Making
> > everybody else learn your favourite language will not go down well even
> > when there is a good reason.
>
> Spot on.
>
> This should also apply to programming standards.

 Even more so IMHO - programming standards are the programmers
version of bike shed paint. For my sins I have been on the standards group
for a large distributed team, almost *every* decision is of the "it doesn't
really matter what we choose but we *must* choose something and stick to
it" kind and every one of them caused complaints essentially of the "I
wanna do it my way" variety and they all had to be told "Yes there's
nothing wrong with your way but - DO IT OUR WAY or else face code review
rejections.".

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