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epolanski

> Eh, I'm not swayed by arguments from authority. Jon's opinion is as valid as mine or yours.

John has spent his entire life to learning and teaching general principles of good software design and their limits.

His opinion definitely has a different weight than ours.

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Well, he can start citing Martin Fowler or Bertrand Meyer. Then what?

Arguments from authority lead no where here. Because these "authorities" also disagree.

John has had meaningful impact to computing from algos, operating systems, programming languages, frameworks, etc.

Fowler has written *nothing* anybody ever cared for. Nothing.

Ousterhout has taught Software Design at Stanford where he's had students implement the most diverse software and finding the limits of his own theories and having them questioned rigorously year after year.

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