Is Programming Style important? How Important? [closed]

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No programmer is an island. Someone is going to have to read their code one day. It's been repeated here many times before: Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding (maybe) That said, if their style is adequate, there are other much more important things to evaluate when hiring a programmer. But if they utterly refuse to use comments or attempt to make their code readable to others, it is a deal-breaker.