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Re:Against Best Practices by mrkeen on Monday November 18, 2024 @11:24AM (#42173935)
>> inexperienced programmers who lack the ability to judge the applicability

In other words, the author knows better than you.

The author could have put forward precedent, principles, or examples. But instead he chose to make it about the people (inexperienced), not his arguments.

Re:Against Best Practices by yCombLinks on Monday November 18, 2024 @12:01PM (#42174345)
The point is there are not rules that are always applicable. Dry is right sometimes, and sometimes it's not.