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Some Coding Standards and Language Style Commentaries

Coding Standards

Tcl/Tk Engineering Manual

by John Ousterhout

VIS Engineering Manual

by Stephen Edwards, Gitanjali Swamy

Style guide for the 4BSD KNF (Kernel Normal Form)

Source: Keith Bostic

bostic@bsdi.com

GNU Coding Standards

There is a

a (local) mirror
Also related are the

GDB Internals Coding Style which describe some modificatons to this basic standard as used in gdb.

The Indian Hill style guide

by L.W. Cannon R.A. Elliott L.W. Kirchhoff J.H. Miller J.M. Milner R.W. Mitze E.P. Schan N.O. Whittington; Bell Labs

The Indian Hill style guide Updated 25 June 1990, with the orignal authors as well as:
Henry Spencer; Zoology Computer Systems, University of Toronto
David Keppel; EECS, UC Berkeley CS&E, University of Washington
Mark Brader; SoftQuad Incorporated, Toronto
Also

mirrored here.

Verilog and VHDL Coding Style

See also the European Space Agency's documents

Java Coding Style Guidelines

By Kent Sandvik, February 2, 1996.

The SDM Project

C Style and Coding Standards
Perl Style Guide (is empty)

Mach4 Project Coding Style

This describes how the Mach4 project at Utah will differ from the traditional Mach coding style.

The IN Project

The Alpha CCIS Project

C++ Language Coding Standard

MSAS Project at JPL

MSAS Development Coding Standards and Style Guide
Abstract Data Types in C
An article by Dan Ford, in Computer Language May 1992.

General Style Guides and Commentaries

Style Guide for Coding SCL: By Doug McBride
See The SCL Documentation.
Documented Ada Style Checker Coding Standards: By Kathy Hoang, Janet Schnerre, 4-Apr-88
Updated to Version 1.1 by Tim Nation 30-Nov-94
Information-Rich Coding Style Tools -- A Detailed Overview: by Kevin Jameson jameson@realcase.com, Date: 1995-08-02
An earlier version of this document is The Realcase Coding Style.
Coding Style and Good Computing Practices: By Jonathan Nagler
Appeared in The Political Methodologist, Spring, 1995 - Volume 6, No 2.
This is a plea for coding standards in the SAS and SPSS programs as used by political scientists.
Can't Happen or /* NOTREACHED */ or Real Programs Dump Core: by Ian Darwin and Geoff Collyer
How To Steal Code or Inventing The Wheel Only Once: by Henry Spencer
The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (Annotated Edition): by Henry Spencer
Notes on Programming in C: By Rob Pike, February 21, 1989

Documentation Extraction Tools

javadoc

A documentation extractor tool for the Sun's

Java Language
See also

Lisa Friendly's

paper

c2man

A documentation extraction system for C code that imposes few constraints on the form of the comments, but does not produce HTML.

ext

Stephen Edwards' documentation extraction system. Used in

VIS verification system,
Polis hardware/software codesign system

More General Language Resources

The C Language Information Center: Many commentaries, standards, style guides. Several are not directly related to C.
The SGI C source Compliance Requirements: by Paul Haeberli, September 1994
This is more of a one-page demo for graphic-arts package.
Fortran Coding Style for the Modern Programmer: This is actually a satirical piece.

Last Updated: 29-Mar-96

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