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For TDD, sure. I'm saying if you're doing scratch work, don't use TDD. It's a tool, not a religion.



Fair. Than my main beef is with all of the zealots. :)


Yeah, almost everything good in tech attracts people who push a good thing too far. If not for working with some reasonable advocates, the FP zealots would have seriously put me off the techniques entirely.


The best is when you realize you are yelling at the mirror. :D

And, to be fully fair, I'm sure this is in many walks. Cast iron advocates. Electric stoves. Manual transmission vehicles.

The worst is when things /used/ to be true. The world has a habit of moving on.




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