Re: Breakin' the rules, Breakin' the rules

In order to break the rules and improve yourself, one should understand the rules.

Rules should not be there for the sake of the rules, but to accomplish an objective efficiently( well hopefully). A number of people break the rules, including me( especially me) when they don't know any better. Understanding the rules allows one to understand the objective and therefore break the rules when necessary.

Not sure if that was what you were looking for but my opinion on the subject.

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Re^2: Breakin' the rules, Breakin' the rules by blazar (Canon) on Jun 01, 2007 at 15:02 UTC
Rules should not be there for the sake of the rules, but to accomplish an objective efficiently( well hopefully). A number of people break the rules, including me( especially me) when they don't know any better. Indeed that's what I've always thought about rules: both in real life and in Programming, with all that's in between those two extremes, they should be there for the people and not the other way round: the people for the rules. I don't want to delve to much into a political/sociological discussion, but that's it: I don't know if a world with no rules at all, or with rules made up by you would be a better one (although as a person with a penchant for libertarian thought I tend to feel like that) but I like to notice that unlike in national authorities, in virtual communities and in programming languages I like (Perl, basically) rules are not there for the sake of being, that is for me to obey them, and they don't get in my way: they're simply out of common sense and they help me along the way.	[reply]

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Re^2: Breakin' the rules, Breakin' the rules
by blazar (Canon) on Jun 01, 2007 at 15:02 UTC

Rules should not be there for the sake of the rules, but to accomplish an objective efficiently( well hopefully). A number of people break the rules, including me( especially me) when they don't know any better.

Indeed that's what I've always thought about rules: both in real life and in Programming, with all that's in between those two extremes, they should be there for the people and not the other way round: the people for the rules. I don't want to delve to much into a political/sociological discussion, but that's it: I don't know if a world with no rules at all, or with rules made up by you would be a better one (although as a person with a penchant for libertarian thought I tend to feel like that) but I like to notice that unlike in national authorities, in virtual communities and in programming languages I like (Perl, basically) rules are not there for the sake of being, that is for me to obey them, and they don't get in my way: they're simply out of common sense and they help me along the way.

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