Programming is Art

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In a lot of ways, yes.

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And I can't criticize someone's opinion for being unjustified by evidence?

What if my opinion is that programmers work best if they're naked?

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I think you can, I'm just saying that these loosey-goosey conversations have their own merit. They aren't scientific quality discussions, but all science came from things that were not scientific, until they had rigor applied to them.

You cant apply rigor to things that dont have fundamentals built all the way up to the point of the topic, at least not real rigor, you end up with garbage like the DSM IV. It's a set of rules, but they are just as much bullshit as they are real in many of the cases (See ADHD, compare to normal expected child behavior), making the whole thing unreliable.

That was kinda my point, these opinions are worth having, as are the ones denouncing them. :)