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by Silhouette 2952 days ago
It's a 'frggin stats page where a developer forgot to remove a call.

And a call that any decent set of tools would surely have highlighted as redundant at that.

I'm all for being clear about the design of a program, but I don't think the example here is convincing, and I agree with the parent that over-engineering can itself damaging.