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Re:How to become a better programmer by sofal on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @02:07PM (#553120)
Just curious: Are you now a true believer in the "single exit always" doctrine (as well as whatever the other 37 rules were) or are you just saying that the benefits of enforcing discipline on the developers' output outweighed the disadvantages of having cargo-culted and dogmatic code standards?
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Re:How to become a better programmer by edw519 on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @02:23PM (#553156)
I became a true believer once I got past my personal prejudices and actually made an attempt to understand "why" some rules were the way they were. I wasn't as smart as I thought. Still not.

Enforcing discipline for the sake of enforcing discipline? See military.

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