> they have a habit of treating them as shining exceptions to the rule, not questioning whether or not the rule is even valid. That doesn't stop with the -ism'

> they have a habit of treating them as shining exceptions to the rule, not questioning whether or not the rule is even valid. That doesn't stop with the -ism's, I routinely run into programmers learning about DRY and cargo-culting the hell out of it. People seize onto absolute rules and superficiality, failing to consider deeper conceptual dissimilarities that would negate the application of the rule.