Seconded. Also, people who usually have that sentiment are not the same people who have to maintain the code. They're usually long gone by then. I have persona

Seconded. Also, people who usually have that sentiment are not the same people who have to maintain the code. They're usually long gone by then. I have personally suffered many sleepless nights having to maintain projects like that. I think it's healthy to avoid extremes. Neither a "whatever works" nor a "write everything in lisp because it's beautiful" sentiment. It's up to the good programmer to decide when to be a pragmatist and when to be a purist.