GNU Coding Standards

GNU teaches you how to become a terrible programmer:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Coding_Standards

[1] Retarded indentation
[2] use of goto
[3] Struct is not typedef'd
[4] Using &poop instead of a proper pointer
[5] Variables not declared at top of function (ANSI C requires it)
[6] global elements have no namespacing
[7] Expressions are not properly grouped (foo.bar < GIZMO_SNUFKIN_THRESHOLD / 2 is ambigious, what gets executed first? parentheses are your friends)

>>19
My point is that standards are established to assist expectations, and you just have to suck it up if old standards look ugly today's context.

Yes, I do recognise that sometimes, compromises in beauty have to be made for the sake of structure and compromises in structure have to be made for the sake of beauty.