Writing Pretty Code

At work we recently switched back to using C++. We argued for a couple of weeks over coding guidelines. During this protracted argument, much of the team sort of felt that we were wasting time arguing about issues like whitespace. However, it turned out to be a huge blessing that we all decided to write human readable code (note that human readable code is different than well designed code.) This article explains how to write human readable code and carefully avoids talking about well designed code:
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