Comment by hairdrop

Not to midwit but I will stick to MISRA C for this sort of thing. It is very clear in why each thing must be done and it is hard to argue against most of it. It’s usually where safety and robustness deeply matter and using it would have avoided a number of high-profile exploits we have seen in the recent past. While not every “rule” may be applicable to all languages, many standard languages could adopt a good number of rules from it and benefit greatly. Anyone with a number of years experience with some reflection on what is good, clear and unambiguous style would reinvent a decent portion of MISRA C.

I’ll let others speak to the Barr standard.