The author is right on the money. I've always written code as specified - just because it felt 'right' - but I could never pin down my arguments - the author ca

The author is right on the money. I've always written code as specified - just because it felt 'right' - but I could never pin down my arguments - the author captures my thoughts beautifully. Particularly his points about reading other people's code & extending functionality - there are very few use-cases where it makes sense to omit semi-colons, end-tags, etc - and if you aren't sure - yours isn't one of those use-cases.