From The Joel on Software Translation Project

Original article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html

“It’s at this point you typically say, ‘Blistering Barnacles, we’ve got to get some consistent coding conventions around here!’ and you spend the next day writing up coding conventions for your team and the next six days arguing about the One True Brace Style and the next three weeks rewriting old code to conform to the One True Brace Style until a manager catches you and screams at you for wasting time on something that can never make money, and you decide that it’s not really a bad thing to only reformat code when you revisit it, so you have about half of a True Brace Style and pretty soon you forget all about that and then you can start obsessing about something else irrelevant to making money like replacing one kind of string class with another kind of string class.”

Translations

• Japanese: 間違ったコードは間違って見えるようにする
• Chinese (Traditional): The Joel on Software Translation Project:讓錯的程式看得出錯
• Croatian: Učini da pogrešan kôd izgleda pogrešno
• Russian: Как заставить неправильный код выглядеть неправильно
• Español: Haciendo que el código defectuoso se vea defectuoso
• German: 2005-May-11 Falsches falsch aussehen lassen
• Portuguese: OndeEssasPessoasConseguem