> Goals for a web application should not be in imperative DOM manipulation, object oriented practices, or in "pure" MVC. A successful application aims to be sim

> Goals for a web application should not be in imperative DOM manipulation, object oriented practices, or in "pure" MVC. A successful application aims to be simple, and there is no room for academic jargon. I highlight this particular pair of sentences because I believe it is very important... I've had too many discussions over why code is 'bad' when what people mean is "doesn't precisely fit this particular idea of how to implement a particular paradigm". What they really mean is that they have a philosophical objection. This effect has even poisoned programming languages... look at static class in C# - really thats a hack around having omitted free standing variables and functions with no associated object - something completely against the spirit of OO but ultimately necessary, practical and /better/ than shoehorning it into an object (singleton).