Steve McConnell Quote

Managers of programming projects aren’t always aware that certain programmingissues are matters of religion. If you’re a manager and you try to require compliancewith certain programming practices, you’re inviting your programmers’ ire. Here’s alist of religious issues:■ Programming language■ Indentation style■ Placing of braces■ Choice of IDE■ Commenting style■ Efficiency vs. readability tradeoffs■ Choice of methodology—for example, Scrum vs. Extreme Programming vs. evolutionarydelivery■ Programming utilities■ Naming conventions■ Use of gotos■ Use of global variables■ Measurements, especially productivity measures such as lines of code per day