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Whenever I read the argument that metaprogramming is terrible because it leads to hard-to-troubleshoot code; it leads me to believe that the person making the c
by icey 18y ago
Whenever I read the argument that metaprogramming is terrible because it leads to hard-to-troubleshoot code; it leads me to believe that the person making the claim:
a) works with terrible programmers and
b) has no idea how to discern who the terrible programmers are.
- astrec 18y agoWhenever I read the argument... In my case, it's simply "Hark! The clarion call of the librarian". ;)
- Herring 18y agoYou hit the nail on the head. B is the real problem. There's nothing intrinsically bad about having billions of authors/programmers. But if you can't separate noise from signal, you start to think maybe a whitelist isn't such a bad idea.