<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Hilco Wijbenga <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com" target="_blank">hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So when is it okay? :-) Still, if proper tooling automates it, why not?</blockquote></div><br>Because your tooling does not rewire people's brains and does not automatically run itself on other people's programs when you *look* at them.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Because not everyone builds houses of cards and leaves them to collapse on their successor while they go chase the next cool thing, like certain modern "web programmers" who seems to have confused "agile" with "fragile" and therefore think Go rewriting its syntax every week is somehow sensible. And not everyone *can* do things the zero-memory-change-it-all-who-cares-it'll-all-be-different-next-week way; that does not fly on the business end, for example. (I've had people claim to me that they do that with accounting packages. I bet they've never faced an audit and will be learning the hard way why business does not work that way when the auditors *do* show up.)<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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