[rob74]

I guess it will bog you down from the minute you (or someone else) has to go back to a piece of sh... er, code you wrote a few months ago in order to implement a new feature or fix a bug. So I'd say following some minimal standards of non-shittiness would be real nice: names don't have to be perfect, but e.g. shouldn't be completely misleading or contain typos (ok, pet peeve of mine), you shouldn't use strings where a boolean is obviously better (like in the screenshot above the article) etc. etc. So, not stuff that will require hours of thinking and planning, but stuff that should be second nature to any programmer worth their salt. Of course, if you're a beginner or someone dabbling with a new programming language, by all means, go ahead and write all the shitty code you want, until you get better at it...