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0 pointsuserbinator6y ago0 comments

all of them do.

That's what leads to dogmatic cargo-culting. Good software is written by thinking about the circumstances and doing what makes the most sense, not by mindless rule-following that don't always make sense.

I don't know why someone would be so worried about typos and introduce more verbosity and redundancy in the process; but then again, I don't use an IDE and I've never had this problem.

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viraptor6y ago

I'm not sure you're really making the argument you think here...

Good software may mean thinking about circumstances like "we're dealing with lots of text parsing and have seen bugs from typos in common keywords" and doing what makes most sense: "let's prevent those in the future, but using constants for keywords". It's only cargo culting if you don't know why you're doing something.

Setting a rule so you don't have to debate something later is a valid solution and may still offset some redundancies introduced this way.

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