> And second, because it's very easy to go from a good guideline to a dogma. All you need is a few people to misinterpret your guidelines. Heck, a lot of people

> And second, because it's very easy to go from a good guideline to a dogma. All you need is a few people to misinterpret your guidelines. Heck, a lot of people haven't even read the guidelines. They just parrot what someone else paraphrased on Twitter. Another issue that's never explicitely mentionned is the vastly different calibers of programmers and engineers in the field. I'm pretty sure John Carmack, Linus Torvald or Donald Knuth's definition of "good code" is quite different than $BODY_SHOP_RESSOURCE_1389's.