This was interesting: > an awful lot of times, pragmatism and reason is sacrificed at the altar of a dogmatic subscription to DRY, especially by programmers o

This was interesting: > an awful lot of times, pragmatism and reason is sacrificed at the altar of a dogmatic subscription to DRY, especially by programmers of the Rails persuasion. I'm not making this a tribal thing but it does sometimes feel like there's a cultural tendency in the Ruby and Javascript communities to... well... preach a little bit. All advice is flawed and most maxims are only partially true. If a community bounces from one "one true way" to another all the time then it's probably not a particularly healthy environment for those who are learning - as they tend to lack the experience to put advice into the correct context.