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+The following guidelines are intended to aid programmers in creating
+code that is consistent with the existing core plugins.
+
+The primary goals of these standards are internal consistency, and
+readability in a wide range of environments.
+
+1. C Language Programming
+
+All code should comply with the requirements of the Free Software
+Foundation Coding standards (which are currently available at
+http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html). We also follow most of
+the FSF guidelines. Developers may suggest deviations from the FSF
+style recommendations, which will be considered by open discussion on
+the netsaintplug-devel mailing list. Any such deviations will apply to
+the entire code base to ensure consistency.
+
+Currently, the exceptions to FSF recommendatios are roughly equivalent
+to GNU indent with invoked as 'indent -ts 2 -br'. Specifically, the
+exceptions are as follows:
+
+a) leading white space for a statement should be formatted as tabs,
+with one tab for each code indentation level.
+
+b) in statement continuation lines, format whitespace up to the column
+starting the statement as tabs, format the rest as spaces (this
+results in code that is legible regardless of tab-width setting).
+
+c) with the exception of the above, tabs should generally be avoided
+
+d) when tab width is 2 spaces, line-length should not exceed 80
+characters
+
+e) The opening brace of an if or while block is on the same line as
+the end of the conditional expression (the '-br' option).
+
+2. Perl Language Programming
+
+<To Be Written>