I'm reminded of an old article from Steve Yegge[0]. Relevant section: > If I were going to write the Ten Golden Rules of Software, the top of the list would be

I'm reminded of an old article from Steve Yegge[0]. Relevant section: > If I were going to write the Ten Golden Rules of Software, the top of the list would be: > Error Prone == Evil > Although this concept is obvious to 99.999% of the general population, it's only accepted by 2% of computer programmers. The remaining 98% subscribe to a competing philosophy, namely: "Error Prone = Manly". Never mind that they just assigned "Manly" to the variable "Error Prone", and the expression always returns true; that happens to be the correct value in this case, so it's an acceptable hack. [0] https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/ten-predictions https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/ten-predictions