While I find myself agreeing with them occasionally, unixsheikh has an unfortunate habit of taking the extremum position in discussions like this, and not SUFFI

While I find myself agreeing with them occasionally, unixsheikh has an unfortunate habit of taking the extremum position in discussions like this, and not SUFFICIENTLY justifying it. Reading code you use is a good habit. Reading it CAN improve its trustability, if you're familiar with both the language and the specific application space that the code operates in. Otherwise it's simply false that reading the code will help. In cases like that, it is better to use different heuristics for trust. This 'overshooting the mark' behaviour is sadly very typical of a certain pocket of the Unix community, that have far too strong a conviction to their beliefs. I believe it severely damages the credibility of otherwise knowledgeable sources.