> never be dogmatic about anything Mostly agree with that with the exception of learning new things. Sometimes it helps to be dogmatic about things if your goa

> never be dogmatic about anything Mostly agree with that with the exception of learning new things. Sometimes it helps to be dogmatic about things if your goal is to learn something new. A prime example is TDD. When my goal is to build a working piece of software, I tend to do TDD for some parts and write tests post facto (or not at all) for other parts. When learning TDD it helped to force myself to be dogmatic. Similarly, if you're learning functional programming in a language that isn't strictly pure, its helpful to be dogmatic about your approach and force yourself to do things the functional way, while in the real world introducing limited impurities may be better.