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sourdecoryesterday at 10:08 PM0 repliesview on HN

Engineering and math follow logic - they model reality / self-consistency and always correct themselves because of the scientific method. However, computer science is a chase of what is the most popular at the moment. Those are decisions based on the crowd, not anything close to an objective opinion, and the wrong choices are compounded every day[0][1].

[0]: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Landin66.pdf

[1]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1622123.1622147