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I want a new term - "author smell" or "article smell".

I loathe when someone or some article rants on about their silver bullet solution, or alternatively, that doing some thing is always bad.

I learned a test taking strategy early in my life - when faced with a multiple choice question, if you see "always" or "never", that answer is usually incorrect.

To come back around to this article and similar software development articles - we have many tools in our toolbox, the trick is knowing when to use (or not use) a particular tool. Never throw your tools away.



There’s a few exceptions to your rule, too ;) Never use std::auto_ptr, for example.




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