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Introduction

These standards and guidelines have been chosen to promote a consistent style, clarity and organization in AIPS++ code. Standards are coding practices which everyone must follow; guidelines are recommended practices, and are identified below by (*). Use of standards and guidelines will in general reduce the number of initial defects by about 25%, and make maintenance of code easier.

Effective C++ and More Effective C++ by Scott Meyers is a good guide to C++ programming. Most of his guidelines apply to AIPS++.

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