>>Unfortunately lots of people have these silly ideas about standards. Standards that support good practices are the only ones that should exist.
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>>Standards that mean everybody should code like one person are insulting to freedom of expression. Be able to read anybody's code regardless of style. It's liberating!
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>That all depends. What is freedom of expression ?

You're missing my sarcasm. The standards nazis are the ones I'm complaining about. They actually prevent new good practices from being used because it doesn't meet their lowest common denominator "style".

Micro-managing idiots!

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>If you own software company or you are responsable for other people projects do you let everybody do 'their own thing' for each project ?
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>I highly doubt this can be productive/profitable in any way.
>I wld rather establish and/or folow common architecture. I think that is one of main reasons why commercial or personal frameworks are necessity nowdays. If I am not mistaken, you do use commercial framework yourself.
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>Those experienced/capable can and should have freedom of expression
>to come up and establish new better architecture (when/if opportunity and timeframe happen), while others (youngsters paid by hour) should learn and folow already established frameworks/standards. That is good for everybody's sake.
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>How menu times you had to deal with ridiculous codes/solutions
>by someone who had full 'freedom of expression' but very little brains ?
>Did it feel good and 'liberating', that you could read all those 'precious jewels' or it had simply driven you mad ?

I deal with that every day! These freaks have been everywhere. :)

Why should I have to bow down to their "standard"?

Besides, "standards" should be guidelines, not blind laws.