>Standards exists for one, and only one, reason. To make the code more readable. Frankly, I don't give a flip what convention is used as long as the code is readable.
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>Some folks, however, see it as a chance to micro-manage the development process. This practice is, of course, a very bad idea since software development by its nature is a creative endeavor. Creativity and micro-management don't play well with each other.

Is "micro-management" the politiclally correct term to mean "poking their noses into everybody's work"?

>Next week, I'll take on the task of trying to convince the "PHB" that: 1. Eliminiating the underscore does nothing to increase readability, and, in fact, may make it less readable. 2. That since readability isn't going to be improved, there's no reason to take on the risk of breaking working code.
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>Frankly, I'll be surprised if I win this argument. I couldn't convince the same individual that Windows stores file time stamps as UTC time with a ton of documentation to back me up.

I don't envy you at all :).

But then, you don't want to know some constraints under which I have to work...