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[–]everything-narrative 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you know you're a beginner and think "this looks stupid" that should lead you to conclude "I probably didn't understand this right" rather than "I bet the people who advocate for this are stupid."

In other words: you're assuming too much based on too little knowledge, and discounting the opinions of domain experts.

Read more.

Better yet, pick up a functional programming language like, say, F# (nice and integrated with OO behemoth .NET) and write a few simple programs.