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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 8459366" data-attributes="member: 53980">Like many lessons, it has to be internalized at the individual level, rather than as a community.I write software for a living. When I was learning, I read plenty of books that warned against various mistakes that newbie coders commonly make (over design, not keeping code clean, etc). And, wouldn't you know it, I made those very same mistakes anyway! I've seen newbie programmers make those exact mistakes since then, despite me warning them against it! Some things are most easily learned if you make the mistake yourself. Some things are more easily learned through practical application than theory.History repeats itself because there's new blood entering the hobby. Of those newbies, a small minority of them will delve deeply into design. One way or another, they'll more likely than not eventually learn the difference between can and should. If they can learn it from someone who's been there and done that, great! IME, they usually have to make the mistake themselves (in many cases, repeatedly) before the lesson sinks in.There's also a contingent that has internalized the lesson, but chooses to break it. Which is fine. They're well aware of what they're doing, and they have their reasons. As long as the person is aware that welding wings to their Subaru isn't going to turn it into an aircraft, who am I to tell them they shouldn't? Poetic license and all that...</blockquote>

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