Hi All Okay, I've now organized the discussion so far into the "Primordial Style Guide": http://puredata.info/docs/style-guide/PrimordialStyleGuide
which establishes the beginnings of a structure and gives us some nice topics to fill out.
Next, I'll start to whittle this down, and, if necessary, start threads for particular topics so the zeitgeist can be distilled.
But, while I do that, feel free to comment on the now available "big picture" as it stands.
Best Luke