This brings many questions.

I've some of my own as well. Targetted at those who have coding standards.

• Having standards is one thing. But how do you check if it's actually followed?
• What are your sanctions if someone breaks the coding standard? Say you have a coding standard of "3 space indent". What if someone keeps using a 4 space indent. Repeatedly. Even after being told. Do you fire him? Even if he's a good coder? Does your business benefit from letting good coders because of a whitespace war?
• Coders may already have the habit of following their own standards, crafted from their experience before they worked for your company, and from the work they do outside of your company. Now they have to break their habit (repeatedly, they still will follow their standard in their night-time hacking). Have you measured their productivity loss?
• Did you actually quantify the benefit of your coding standard? At the end of the year, how much more profit did your company made because of the coding standard? How did you measure that? If productivity really went up, did you let programmers go, because you now need less of them?
• If people can break coding standards, what's the point of having them in the first place?

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