But there are always those who don't bother learning the language. Like one of my predecessors who more or less wrote C# like C++ (pre-C++98). My apprentice the

But there are always those who don't bother learning the language. Like one of my predecessors who more or less wrote C# like C++ (pre-C++98). My apprentice then tried learning the language from existing code and in turn took a bit of mentoring to write idiomatic code. I do agree that the language is nice and well-designed, but people can write crap in any language and googling around doesn't necessarily lead you to the authoritative or most current documentation but oftentimes to crappy tutorials, beginner forum posts and the like. It's not that hard to pick up bad patterns, sadly.