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by giomasce 2751 days ago
Another article along the lines of "I personally prefer to use a syntax in a certain case, therefore everybody should use the same syntax in every case, and really I do not understand why the language creators even allowed for the other syntax".

No, your are not smarter than everybody else. You just have different tastes, and you are not even covering all possible use cases (I would say that most people find "x > 0" more legible than "0 < x").

A lot of "Don't do" or "X considered harmful" article writers should really be a bit more careful before generalizing from "I like" to "everybody should" so quickly.