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The problem with this article is that the examples suggested never happen.

Once in a while with dynamic languages you come across a "librarian" who likes to use the arcane language features. Perhaps more often, if you use Java, you will encounter code where a lot of AbstractWhatTheFracktory design pattern abuse is going on. However you will never, ever find the "ascetic" who rewrites the zipcode-padder using lambdas.

Sadly, most of the time you just see the typical egregious dailyWTF mess.



Of course you never see people use the y combinator to write a string padding algorithm. But do you ever see people overuse metaprogramming or abuse open classes?

The story was not meant to be taken literally.


Not very often.




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