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Companies have given up, seeing code layout as a strictly personal matter and not as important as shipping product. Many habits persist from early C idioms that, given the size and complexity of modern projects, are overdue for retirement. The objective of code layout is reliability in reading, not expression of the writer’s awesomeness, the writer writes. A lot of coders regard as proof of their superiority that nobody else can read their code. This article is not a coding standards document; readers use many different languages.