Nice to see a recommendation for Petzold's The Annotated Turing in the post, it's a great read. I'm not sure I really understand the writer's concern though. T

Nice to see a recommendation for Petzold's The Annotated Turing in the post, it's a great read. I'm not sure I really understand the writer's concern though. The debates he mentions (functional versus object-oriented programming, dynamic versus static typing, oral versus written collaboration) don't seem like issues with right or wrong answers in and of themselves, but rather issues for which to compare and contrast benefits and tradeoffs according to one's goals, priorities, and preferences in a given situation. Disagreement with heroes in such a context seems a complete non-issue. > "could I be stuck in a local maximum?" I perhaps don't quite understand his meaning of the question, but as perfection is infinitely precise and necessarily unattainable, everyone (who's at least honestly doing their best) is always stuck at a personal local maximum, and will be until they find a new maximum through continued learning. And I think there'll always be enough variety of experiences and preferences among individuals that we'll never all completely converge to the same maximum.