Those who know, know.
40 points
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Rules of thumb can be very useful for a relatively inexperienced programmer, and once you understand why they exist you can choose to ignore them when they would get in the way. Clean Code is totally unhinged though
13 points
The problem is that a lot of people don’t understand when to ignore the rules and just stick with them forever.
We had a developer once that always said KISS KISS KISS whenever we pointed out that her functions are working but not reusable, so she wrote 20 functions that all did the same thing, but with slightly different parameters. And that’s just one of the examples
1 point
Even if their style is objectively bad, as long as it works, that’s a bad hill to fight over.