You say you hate your organization’s coding standards? You say they make the code harder to understand and maintain? You say they could only have been devised by a particularly moronic version of the pointy haired boss? Stop your whining and let John Graham-Cumming show you what a real coding standard from hell looks like.
Really, it’s hard to see what they could have been thinking. I understand the need of some people to have a detailed plan before starting to cut code but jeez! It makes you wonder (in a staring at a train wreck sort of way) what the rest of the standard looked like. But, of course, it was the government.