i'm opposite the guy who 'critiqued' you. I appreciate 'programmers' approaching 100year old crafts, and instead of blindingly accepting 'you MUST do it this way!', they curiously investigate and consider the 'but WHYs' of doing it a particular way. If the old way is any good, it can stand up to this informed scrutiny..

OTOH, every toddler inventing his own broken javascript-dialect-framework with 5 broken square wheels every 6 minutes, THAT I could do without..