Recognizing different perspectives of code formatting

You've probably realized that not everyone thinks alike. Everyone is different, and has different opinions on how things should be. Programmers are no different, and in general, for any decently sized module, if you give two programmers the same specification, you will usually get quite different implementations. This isn't a problem or a weakness, it is a strength.

There are many different ways to do almost anything in programming. Some may be objectively better than others, and some objectively worse, but in many cases, given two different implementations of the same requirements, one will be better than the other in some ways, and worse than the other in other ways.

The differences in two different implementations of the same requirements will often vary at every level, from the higher-level design such as class architecture to the lower-level design, such as which expressions are used. For example, consider simple...