"Best Practices" are anything but--becoming dogmatic about programming is a Bad Thing(tm). Otherwise, the projects that WhyDay is encouraging are meant to be c

"Best Practices" are anything but--becoming dogmatic about programming is a Bad Thing(tm). Otherwise, the projects that WhyDay is encouraging are meant to be creative. Without creativity, we stagnate. No one is suggesting that a 4kb implementation of X become part of standard libraries. However, there could be endlessly useful things learned from such exercises even if its just a creative outlet for many programmers.