I agree with and already practice many of these conventions (at least the ones that apply to C-like languages in general). It's interesting that I do and I kind of wonder what lead me down that path, since I haven't programmed in C since my college days. I often think that my assembly class from those days pushed me into making my code as vertical as possible rather than the indented-if-statement-curly-brace hell that I often see, since assembly was very readable without having that capability.