Where can I get the “Indian Hill Style Guide\ and other coding standards?
Various documents are available for anonymous ftp from: Site: File or directory: ftp.cs.washington.edu pub/cstyle.tar.Z (the updated Indian Hill guide) ftp.cs.toronto.edu doc/programming (including Henry Spencer’s “10 Commandments for C Programmers”) ftp.cs.umd.edu pub/style-guide You may also be interested in the books The Elements of Programming Style, Plum Hall Programming Guidelines, and C Style: Standards and Guidelines; see the Bibliography. See also question 18.9. comp.lang.c FAQ list ยท Question 17.10 Q: Some people say that goto’s are evil and that I should never use them. Isn’t that a bit extreme? A: Programming style, like writing style, is somewhat of an art and cannot be codified by inflexible rules, although discussions about style often seem to center exclusively around such rules. In the case of the goto statement, it has long been observed that unfettered use of goto’s quickly leads to unmaintainable spaghetti code. However, a simple, unthinking ban on the goto statem
