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Discussion on: What conventional wisdom in software is wrong?

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morgana

"It's industry-standard". This is often used to try and end debate, but the "industry-standard" for most things seems to have a shorter and shorter lifecycle as new and emergent technologies make them obsolete.

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Kirill Shestakov

If it's a phrase you have to use to explain a solution, then you're doing it wrong. Even if it's an "industry standard" for a good reason, the underlying reason for it matters more than the fact it's an "industry standard".