Talk:GNU coding standards

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Line length

Do the GNU Coding Standards say anything about line length? – 89.8.40.93 (talk) 17:26, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removed un-encyclopedic sentence

I removed the following, which feels subjective: it can be a good idea for most authors of free Unix programs to follow the standards — whether or not their programs are officially part of the GNU Project. Perhaps it can be reformulated on the form "XXYYZZ suggests that ...", if someone can find a good reference. --Erik 14:46, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not only subjective, but wrong — see the Linux Kernel Coding Style guide, the first two chapters of which make some cogent points against the GNU style. Should a criticism section be added to the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.240.145.232 (talk) 15:34, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Rationale?

What's the rationale behind this formatting? What is it based on? Why have the mentioned decisions been made? Since it's radically different from common code formatting, there has to be a reason, right? I think article deserves a section for that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.91.30.226 (talk) 07:48, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. What is the history of the style? Valcumine (talk) 02:48, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 01:19, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GNU Coding Standards → GNU coding standards –

Even the GNU uses lower case ([www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/]): "The GNU coding standards, last updated ..."

Per WP:CAPS ("Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization") and WP:TITLE, this is a generic, common term, not a propriety or commercial term, so the article title should be downcased. Lowercase will match the formatting of related article titles. Tony (talk) 03:45, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support per the official web page GNU coding standards and generally no reason to capitalize. Dicklyon (talk) 05:09, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. --Pnm (talk) 04:13, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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