Re: Yahoo Style Guide No Longer Available

I like the more precise terminology of '[writing|coding] convention'

As for an other writing styleguide, this one might also be interesting 
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Renoir 
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Janet Swisher <jswisher@mozilla.com> wrote:

>On 8/25/13 1:09 PM, Renoir Boulanger wrote:
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>Regarding styleguide I have in my watch list the following. Do we want to go toward such project in the long term? - http://isobar-idev.github.io/code-standards/ 
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>That is a good example of coding conventions; we should probably have some minimal conventions for code examples on WPD, and they should reflect industry best practices. However, the Yahoo! Style Guide is about conventions for writing text. 
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>This is an indication that we should avoid the term "style guide", because it means different things to programmers and to writers. I think we should use the terms "coding conventions" and "writing conventions" (and avoid "coding standards", because "standards" is also overloaded).
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