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Why post this stuff? He offers opinion without explanation, this is the same type of JavaScript "wisdom" that probably had him following the conventions he is now nixing in the first place. I'm not sure if his "dogma" disclaimer at the end is ironic or a cop-out.

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Agreed. This article is utterly worthless.

Why is this on the front page?

>Why post this stuff? He offers opinion without explanation

He does offer explanations (e.g, related to anonymous inline regular expressions that they cannot be cached and that they don't easily convey their purpose like a name would).

Plus, whether he offers explanations or not is beside the point. It's a blog post, not a published paper, and as such it can serve to get the ball rolling. Which it did, judging from the discussion here.

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