> The problem is not "Effective X" books. The problems is people treating these rules in these books as dogma. You put a bunch of stuff in a book and people ar

> The problem is not "Effective X" books. The problems is people treating these rules in these books as dogma. You put a bunch of stuff in a book and people are going to copy the stuff from the book into their programs. Bits of front-matter don't matter. Consider the GoF book and the havoc that mindless repetition of design patterns creates.