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"Red" is an objective attribute; "bad" is a subjective one.

I agree that self-evaluation and recognition of inferior practices will help one progress, but the article would be more effective if the author was less condemning.

Helping people become better is good but just insulting them needlessly is silly. The rest of the article is good and helpful because it goes into what they actually did wrong but calling them bad programmers is insulting and doesn't actually add any value to the article (I actually think that it takes away from the article somewhat because of the tone it creates).

But if you call someone a bad programmer, odds are greater that they stop listening.