FD could tell you his standard rules
Not really. I don't have a standard way of programming - or rather my standards evolve as things change. I think it's important to evaluate your preconceptions once in a while, just to find out if they've been obsoleted. How can a Programming Standard work?
Didn't we cover this already? A programming standard can work if the language used has a SPOT, and the compiler simply refuses to compile garbage (anything that is not standards compliant). Examples include Haskell, Lisp and Python of which the later is by far the most humanly readable.Also XML/XSD are fairly good examples (for declarative languages) for a standard that works. The reason? Most parsers will not allow you to use illegal (non-standard) syntax.