[mcnichol]

I'm appreciative for the person who wrote the article.

These are my favorite types of debates and while I disagree with it for much better articulated reasons already mentioned, primarily the exploitative nature of header files used as security through obscurity, I think it stirs up a lot of debate and keeps the spaghetti meatball of knowledge around patterns/anti-patterns, "best-practices", etc. moving forward in a much more passionate way.

I think this is the truest sense of the term "hacker" which lives up to the title of the site pushing us into these debates. Putting stuff together that doesn't always work as intended or expected but arguing for and against it.

A long winded thank you to everyone, OP and all the threads responding.