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> You would probably not want someone with little experience in given language, to touch production codebase without review

I wouldn't want anyone, in any language, with any level experience to touch production codebase without review.

Not even K&R themselves.

So that's a ridiculous straw man.

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Yet it happens in many companies, when team is working on non-critical systems or in extreme cases, even on critical systems. I sometimes feel like some people in IT are detached from reality, not everything is mission critical system and not everything has high quality, because there's a lot of people in IT with all kind of background and there all kind of clients with different sets of requirements. It's business, not utopia.

I don't want your attitude at my business.

Everyone makes mistakes. And code review is also about knowledge sharing and avoiding single points of failure in staffing.

> Not even K&R themselves.

This feels like a town cop enforcing strict speed limits in the couple of miles that fall in their jurisdiction. If K&R show up at your door and want to touch your production code, you just let them, bring them coffees, and ask for autographs. Even if it breaks, it would be an amazing story.

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