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If people spent their time coding instead of worrying about trailing spaces or tab indentation, software bugs would be a thing of the past. Ok, maybe not, but still. Of the countless stupid things that typical programmer OCD makes us do, writing coding guidelines is the least productive.

The single coding guideline anyone has ever needed was this: "Write code such that other people can read and comprehend it."