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A Koan is "a paradoxical anecdote or riddle, used in Zen Buddhism to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning and to provoke enlightenment" I think that
by delecti 10y ago
A Koan is "a paradoxical anecdote or riddle, used in Zen Buddhism to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning and to provoke enlightenment"
I think that kinda implicitly means the author considers git to be either paradoxical or illogical. That seems even more clear from the last two paragraphs of "The Hobgoblin".
- th0114nd 10y agoI didn't read the hobgoblin the same way as the author being purely critical. I read it as a defense: a similarity between commands would make it easier to choose the wrong one. Removing a branch is a more destructive than deleting a file, so it should be a command chosen with conscious care rather than muscle memory.
- sidhantgandhi 10y agoThat's the absolute opposite conclusion from what the author intended.
- adamrezich 10y agoAre you the author? Or, if not, did the author specify their intended conclusions in additional material somewhere?
- jejones3141 10y agoThat's a reference to an Emerson quote; if I remember rightly it's "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds". I suspect the implication is that only little minds expect consistency... but over and above Emerson being a questionable source for UI design principles, he qualifies it. The quote isn't "Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."