yeah, but it's just a social more of the programming community to describe social mores as idioms :-p
Thoroughly agree with the crux of the argument, though. There is too much cargo cult science wih regards to programming practice. eg don't ever use gotos, upper case reserved words in SQL, functions should be no bigger than N lines. This type of thinking cripples our critical faculties, and is to be resisted.
Thoroughly agree with the crux of the argument, though. There is too much cargo cult science wih regards to programming practice. eg don't ever use gotos, upper case reserved words in SQL, functions should be no bigger than N lines. This type of thinking cripples our critical faculties, and is to be resisted.