[objectiveariel]

Yup, I'd be the Philosopher King in Plato's Republic. First thing I'd do is ban JavaScript programming.

[pavlov]

Under what penalty?

Such a capriciously specific command makes it sound like you'd be more of a run-of-the-mill tyrant à la Creon.

[objectiveariel]

Decapitation. That'll teach you loose coupling.

Beware: Those lacking a sense of humour will be sentenced to impalement.

Besides, I'm not like Creon. Creon was into Delphi, and I'm not into Pascal.

[coldtea]

Creon wasn't a run-of-the-mill tyrant -- he was a respected monarch who put the good of the city over moral/religious concerns.

His dispute with Antigone is about law vs personal/religious ethics, not about him being a capricious tyrant (besides in the end he relents). Her brother was a traitor.

[danielam]

"put the good of the city over moral/religious concerns"

Now there's a statement. The "good of city" is itself a moral concern.

[coldtea]

As long as the inhabitants agree on a specific course of things and have found them to help the city, the "good of the city" as concerning its government is meant as just following that.

So, "good of the city" as in "doing what the city deems good", not as in moral.