I think Joel really has the right answer here, there is no right answer. This battle of the theoretical vs the practical has raged through history in just about every field. Sure, we all know it is wrong to speed in theory, but in practice we really are in a hurry... The solution, as it always has been, is to strive for the theoretical solution but understand that we will never actually get there and that we live in the practical world.
Cheers!
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via Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky on 3/17/08
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Pretty good response by someone who's an idealist. Not very good at statistics though (uses small sample sets).
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/rdf/
I don't think Joel's post is to say that there is no right answer, just that the idea of yelling "conform to the standards" doesn't work. There are solutions, but they require a greater level of thinking than was utilized to create the problem.
You might enjoy my post on this issue here:
http://www.robbyslaughter.com/blog/?2008-03-21
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