> This is what collective experience is, though. Several peoples' experience. No, this is not what I mean by collective experience. I mean something like what

> This is what collective experience is, though. Several peoples' experience. No, this is not what I mean by collective experience. I mean something like what the vast majorit of experts agree on and follow in their day to day programming activities. > This is very much true. Best practices typically are aimed at beginners. Experts usually rely on tacit understanding rather than rules-based thinking. That means they are exactly not best practices. They are rails and safe guards for beginners to help them ramp up. Training wheels. They should never be used as an argument for an engineering decision.