Standards are not worth it. The only value in documented standards is in providing an authoritative source to resolve disagreements - but if there is no disagreement there is no harm and often a lot of good in developers deviating from the standards.
What are the advantages suggested here? Automate parts of your code? Don't use string manipulation on source to do that, that's evil. Measure SLOC? Who cares. Create a code analysis engine to keep everything matching the spec? Circular reasoning.
The underlying point is valid - rather than trying to document what good code is, the best way for senior developers to get junior developers to write good code is to write good code themselves, and particularly to refactor existing code as they work on it. (Don't try and do it all in one go, just make sure that each file you change you leave a little better than it was). But what constitutes good code is very hard to capture in a standards document - and given that no-one will read or follow said standards document, why bother?
The underlying point is the point - which is that the best documentation of coding standards is the code itself. Automating code generation, analysis, measurement, etc are just some other benefits that come out of standardizing code if one chooses to implement them.
What are the advantages suggested here? Automate parts of your code? Don't use string manipulation on source to do that, that's evil. Measure SLOC? Who cares. Create a code analysis engine to keep everything matching the spec? Circular reasoning.
The underlying point is valid - rather than trying to document what good code is, the best way for senior developers to get junior developers to write good code is to write good code themselves, and particularly to refactor existing code as they work on it. (Don't try and do it all in one go, just make sure that each file you change you leave a little better than it was). But what constitutes good code is very hard to capture in a standards document - and given that no-one will read or follow said standards document, why bother?