[Tainnor]

> Are we reading the same article? There is zero concern for syntax.

By "syntactical" I mean "concerned with the surface level appearance of low-level code structure".

> Yes, and that's good, because it keeps the focus on his actual points rather than the minutiae of a contrived example.

Only if you think that guidelines about how to write code should be devoid of the context of the problem you're trying to solve. I happen to think that this is mostly wrong.

[mike_hock]

Yes, I think it's possible to have discussions on an abstract level and not everything has to be a case study.