Disagree, you should always strive to write code in the common idioms found in that language's community with local "house rules" deciding the fuzzier points.

Disagree, you should always strive to write code in the common idioms found in that language's community with local "house rules" deciding the fuzzier points. I've gotten into this argument frequently with coworkers over the years, usually surrounding situations where we have some side code in a language where the common idioms, style guides, etc are vastly different than our main language. They end up writing X as if it were Y with different syntax, to which I object. Their take is always that it makes the code more readable, but that's not really true - it's only more readable to a Y programmer, not the space of X programmers.