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Re:An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Dev... by ubu7737 on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @02:57AM (#12741661)
To me it's sort of like people who use an index card when they read. They move it line-by-line down the page so their eyes have an easier time traversing the line of text.

If this is the crutch that makes you a better programmer, who am I to discredit the practice? But dogma has no place in software engineering.

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Re:An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Dev... by onion2k on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @03:58AM (#12741931)
Kind of like those developers who have to rely on syntax highlighting and linters, right? Those guys! :)

Sometimes using something to help you write better code is just a plain old good idea. You can write it off as unnecessary dogma, but if it actually makes your code better you're shooting yourself in the foot a bit.

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