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[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago

I do believe that while programming has many ways of doing the same task, there is always an objectively best way to do it.

I've been writing code in one form or another for some 30 years now, and my observation so far has been the exact opposite: there are many problems in programming for which there is no one clearly superior solution, even in theory. Just like life in general, programming is full of trade-offs, compromises, and diminishing returns.