About Programming Conventions

Programming conventions are important to programmers because they make scripts easier to read and understand. Writing scripts that are easy to understand will make searching for errors easier, and will make it easier to re-use scripts.  If programmers agree on a common way of writing scripts, it will be much easier to read the scripts of other programmers. Even the programmer that originally wrote a script may have problems understanding his or her own code after a few months unless it is written and commented in a way that makes it easy to read.