>Because otherwise the article has no substance. Not true. And trust me, I hate substanceless articles as much as the next person. But once you get past the op

>Because otherwise the article has no substance. Not true. And trust me, I hate substanceless articles as much as the next person. But once you get past the opening, the article is about mindsets, which are much more interesting. >Imagine code written like that. Just the imagination is the pure horror. People don't write code the way they write prose. If they did, Steve Yegge and Yossi Kreinin would have been fired years ago (what makes for good prose doesn't make for good code).