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Spectrum or I believe more of a Venn Diagram.

There was a moment in grade school where I was sat down and it was explained to me that you don't have to take a test in order. You can skip around if you want to, and I ran so far with that notion that at 25 I probably should have written a book on how to take tests, while I could still remember most of it.

One of the few other "lightning bolt out of the blue" experiences I can recall was realizing that some code constructs are easier for both the human and the compiler to understand. You can by sympathetic to both instead of compromising. They both have a fundamental problem around how many concepts they can juggle at the exact same time. For any given commit message or PR you can adjust your reasoning for whichever stick the reviewer has up their butt about justifying code changes.



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