There's not a single correct coding style for software engineering. It's a toolbox, and you pick the right tool for what you're doing. This video outlines four situations from exploratory code to multi-version production, based on my 30 years of big tech, academic, and government coding experience.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
00:00 - Introduction
01:24 - Coding standards matter
04:16 - The four situations
05:13 - 1. Exploration
07:03 - 2. Prototyping
08:23 - 3. Single-version commercial
11:48 - 4. Multi-version commercial
14:24 - Why not one situation? an example
18:06 - Summary
