Re:Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go
by viraptor on Monday April 13, 2020 @09:47PM
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I'm not sure you're really making the argument you think here...
Good software may mean thinking about circumstances like "we're dealing with lots of text parsing and have seen bugs from typos in common keywords" and doing what makes most sense: "let's prevent those in the future, but using constants for keywords". It's only cargo culting if you don't know why you're doing something.
Setting a rule so you don't have to debate something later is a valid solution and may still offset some redundancies introduced this way.
Good software may mean thinking about circumstances like "we're dealing with lots of text parsing and have seen bugs from typos in common keywords" and doing what makes most sense: "let's prevent those in the future, but using constants for keywords". It's only cargo culting if you don't know why you're doing something.
Setting a rule so you don't have to debate something later is a valid solution and may still offset some redundancies introduced this way.