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title: "Why are coding standards important?"  
description: "Why are coding standards important?"  
author: "Rahul Roi"  
published: 2019-12-12  
updated: 2019-12-12  
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category: "coding standard"  
tags: ["coding standard"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Why are coding standards important?

Why are [coding standards](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/145574/what-are-coding-standards-in-software-engineering) important?..\
Please let me know why.. :)\

## Replies

### Reply by Nishi Tiwari

Using coding standard, software development **reduces the chances of errors and complexity in the program**. If they follow **[coding](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/145579/what-is-coding-and-testing)** standard then it will be easy to maintain bugs because anyone can understand the problem and modify it at any given point of a time. And also code is simple, short & concise. It has certain advantages that’s why we use coding standard.

Advantages of coding standard

• Enhanced efficiency

• Less complexity

• Project failure risk is reduced

• Easy to maintain

• Less chances of errors

• Cost efficient

• Saves time.


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