On 11/20/13 3:45 PM, Dicebot wrote:
On Wednesday, 20 November 2013 at 20:47:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
There are a bunch of styles that are consistent yet used by nobody,
because they are objectively worse. So consistency is not the sole
requirement. Then you hadn't mentioned "that is liked by at least one
programmer" which moves the goalposts. Then one programmer can be one
highly unusual human being, so there is strength in numbers.
You see, the whole definition of term "objective comparison" implies
comparison by traits other than actual usage.
No, because the quantity being measured is "worse".
Andrei
