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by taeric 1557 days ago
In that, I agree. I don't know of many (any?) tools that are by nature bad. I just think there are many that are oversold.

That is, my point wasn't to say that you can't do it wrong. Rather, doing it right may not further the end goal. Just look up the article of someone trying to TDD a sudoku solver. It is painful, even though there really isn't any one thing that the person did wrong.