alt Hacker News> As with most things, don’t be dogmatic.
It depends. If you want to learn faster, you should be dogmatic: "In der Beschränkung zeigt sich erst der Meister." If you want to become a better programmer, please do set extra challenges (fe pure lazy functional progamming only, pure literate programming, ...)
That’s true, I was mostly referring to it in a professional setting, not for educational purposes.