> Are we reading the same article? There is zero concern for syntax. By "syntactical" I mean "concerned with the surface level appearance of low-level code str

> Are we reading the same article? There is zero concern for syntax. By "syntactical" I mean "concerned with the surface level appearance of low-level code structure". > Yes, and that's good, because it keeps the focus on his actual points rather than the minutiae of a contrived example. Only if you think that guidelines about how to write code should be devoid of the context of the problem you're trying to solve. I happen to think that this is mostly wrong.