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What is the daftest standard you have ever had to follow?

I judging by the number of comments on a previous post, I thought this may dredge up a few stories...

Corpotate IT departments often like to impose standards on developers, which are no bad thing in themselves, but sometimes they can be ill thought out,

Duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/218123/what-was-the-strangest-coding-standard-rule-that-you-were-forced-to-follow

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SCORM for sure. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCORM)

shogun  2009-02-13 12:55:24
You have to be kidding me. Are you an AICC fanboy or something?
annakata  2009-02-13 13:03:15
I don't know what that means, all I know is SCORM SUCKS!
shogun  2009-02-14 00:15:52
Ryan, does SCORM suck or do some SCORM implementations suck? Debate going on at http://www.scorm.com/blog/2009/06/scorm-doesnt-suck/.
Mike Rustici  2009-08-05 18:31:19

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