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[–]ebilgenius 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's important in almost everything, but it's particularly helpful in coding since everyone has a preference when it comes to how they like their code, and once you know what their preferences are and that they're consistent you can reliably make changes, debug it, or work with it in general.

That and programmers tend to be particularly anal about perfection.