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Boring Is Best! When you have junior programmers joining/leaving teams, consistent, boring code written in one Boring PL according to Boring Code Conventions is like driving on a freeway in one straight direction with auto-pilot on.

Clever code written in half-a-dozen Cool PL's is like driving for your life in sharply turning mountain roads with no guard-rails - something guaranteed to become cataclysmic as your number of issues/escalations rise and rise, your tech debt becomes an un-surmountable mountain and you watch your hair turn grey before you are middle-aged.



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