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> I don't understand your point In my view best practices emerge from a body of knowledge (or sometimes from the practice and wisdom of others that haven't bee
by agentultra 2y ago
> I don't understand your point
In my view best practices emerge from a body of knowledge (or sometimes from the practice and wisdom of others that haven't been documented/accepted/etc yet) and are "shortcuts."
I'm not defending Postel's Law; I agree that, after years of practice and research, it leads to security issues and surprises.
However, the point is that these kinds of principles don't arise out of people's heads and become accepted wisdom for nothing; they're usually built off of an implied (or explicit) body of knowledge.
Does that make sense?
- michael1999 2y agoSure. Best practices develop by choosing practices to match your context out of a defined body of knowledge. But SWEBOK is very clear that "best practices" are context specific - they are radically different forces and solutions in video games as compared to chemical engineering control systems. There's no such thing as a "best practice" absent a context. The footnotes in SWEBOK point off in a million directions saying "go look over there for best practices for YOUR context".