> The people who set the trends in the development industry are extremely smart.
Sure. But, why do the trends keep changing, then? Why don't these smart people just get it right once and for all?
It's because, frankly, the people who set the trends are often wrong. E.g., Java-style OOP with deep single-inheritance chains is not even considered good style IN JAVA anymore.
They're just celebrities, and we're (as a group) just as susceptible to group-think and cargo-culting as people who try every fad diet because some celebrity did it.
Sure. But, why do the trends keep changing, then? Why don't these smart people just get it right once and for all?
It's because, frankly, the people who set the trends are often wrong. E.g., Java-style OOP with deep single-inheritance chains is not even considered good style IN JAVA anymore.
They're just celebrities, and we're (as a group) just as susceptible to group-think and cargo-culting as people who try every fad diet because some celebrity did it.