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            <p>Programmers argue endlessly about the best way to format their programs,
but everyone agrees that the most important thing is to be <span class="ix-entry" ix-key="coding style!importance of consistency" markdown="1">consistent</span>
<span class="bib-ref">[<a class="bib-ref" href="../bibliography/#Binkley2012">Binkley2012</a>, <a class="bib-ref" href="../bibliography/#Johnson2019">Johnson2019</a>]</span>.
Since checking rules by hand is tedious,
most programmers use tools t