Tony Morris

@dibblego @notcalledjack @EyalL It's a vague, non-formal idea. But lots of vague, non-formal ideas are valuable, even in programming.

@kaleidic @notcalledjack @EyalL I keep hearing this allegation of value.

@dibblego @kaleidic @notcalledjack establish a social pattern for enforce certain ways (better ones?) to write in a language

@jneira @kaleidic @notcalledjack I have seen these. So "idiomatic" is a psychological "groupthink" phenomena? I am starting to agree.

@dibblego @kaleidic @notcalledjack yep, it belongs to the sociological semantics of languages :-P

@jneira @dibblego @kaleidic @notcalledjack groupthink is a good description, eg the enterprisists group insist spring is the only proper way

@channingwalton @jneira @kaleidic @notcalledjack so idiomatic code is groupthink for doing things very stupidly. I was right first time!

@dibblego @jneira @kaleidic @notcalledjack yes, but if something is applied thoughtfully and happens to be an idiom, that’s ok surely?