[penetrarthur]

Most of the programming problems have been solved before. Some of the solutions turned out to be solid programming patterns. Before you write a single line of code, you check if there is a "standard" way of solving the given problem. That way the code is more maintainable and more people will be able to work with your code.

[andreasgonewild]

So we've been told. Part of my point here is that code like this is the opposite of more maintainable. Writing code for clueless people to read and understand is a loosing game for everyone, that energy is better used to cultivate skills collectively. This is about not having to differentiate between individuals, about being able to treat a bunch of coders as a code-factory; which is very convenient but neither efficient nor humane.