Too many ways to do things. TIMTOWTDI. If you went looking for the best practices, you would find a few things but mostly you would find garden path tutorials

Too many ways to do things. TIMTOWTDI. If you went looking for the best practices, you would find a few things but mostly you would find garden path tutorials leading you through many suboptimal ways of doing things and then finally recommending a final, also suboptimal, way. There was a book on Perl best practices that was full of recommendations on how to do things, and after not too long many of the techniques were deprecated. In other words the book was wrong yet it was the go-to book when it came out. Sure it’s normal for tech books to get outdated but this seemed to be a different level. Then you hop over to the Python docs and see this phrase, paraphrasing here, “there should (generally) be one preferred way to do it.”