Comment by rerdavies

I don't really see anything in it that particularly difficult our counter-productive. Or, to be honest, anything that isn't just plain good coding practice. All suitably given as guidelines not hard and fast rules.

The real joy of having coding standards, is that it sets a good baseline when training junior programmers. These are the minimum things you need to know about good coding practice before we start training you up to be a real programmer.

If you are anything other than a junior programmer, and have a problem with it, I would not hire you.