Coding Standard List

A list of different CodingStandards. The great thing about standards is there's so many to choose from!

C++ Coding Standards

• http://www.possibility.com/Cpp/CppCodingStandard.html : some have found this c++ coding standard useful.
• Ellemtel guidelines - http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/lab/cplus/c++.rules/
• Taligent - http://pcroot.cern.ch/TaligentDocs/TaligentOnline/DocumentRoot/1.0/Docs/books/WM/WM_3.html
• JSF++ - http://www.research.att.com/~bs/JSF-AV-rules.pdf
• HIGH·INTEGRITY C++ - http://www.codingstandard.com

Java

• Sun's (somewhat dated) - http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConvTOC.doc.html (and see the comment in http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/community/chat/JavaLive/2002/jl0212.html (BrokenLink, redirects to http://java.sun.com/community/index.html); search for "coding conventions")
• DougLeas Coding Standards (http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/html/javaCodingStd.html)
• ScottAmbler's Coding Standards (http://www.ambysoft.com/javaCodingStandards.html)
• WilliamWakes single-page standard (http://www.xp123.com/xplor/xp0002f/codingstd.gif) You can URL-escape the dot in '.gif' to stop wiki from realising it's a link to an image - old Jedi web trick ('This is not the file type you're looking for...')
• InfospheresCodingStandardForJava
• ChiMu OO and Java Development: Guidelines and Resources(http://www.chimu.com/publications/javaStandards/index.html)
• Geosoft's Java Programming Style Guidelines (http://geosoft.no/javastyle.html)
• Netscape's Software Coding Standards Guide for Java (http://developer.netscape.com/docs/technote/java/codestyle.html)

SQL

• well-known 'AMIT' guide - http://www.wsl.ch/relics/rauminf/riv/datenbank/general/tinalondon.html

C

• GNU standards - http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html
• MISRA C - http://www.misra.org.uk/

JavaScript

Probably

• JavaScriptCodingStandard

PHP

• PEAR Coding Standards http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.php

Visual Basic (Or should I just call it M$?)

Don't laugh... Someone had to put it in --DaveBeer

• Microsoft coding conventions - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa240822(VS.60).aspx
• Not purely VB .. but still M$ - http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvsgen/html/cfr.asp
• Hungarian notation in Visual Basic - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/173738

OCaml

• Very detailed with pro's & con's of different variants - http://caml.inria.fr/resources/doc/guides/guidelines.en.html

"The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from." -- Rob Haffernik

Sun's (somewhat dated) - http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConvTOC.doc.html

Why is it somewhat dated?

See the URL following the Sun coding conventions URL above.

perlstyle -- http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlstyle.html

Also see BadCodingStandards.