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> Only one of them knew what any of the SOLID principles were as I named them off.

Here's to hoping I don't ever end up where you are. Let's just let programmers do programming instead of brushing up on their MBA/"Six Sigma" style time wasting.

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It is very useful to know about the lessons of those that came before so that you don't end up making the same mistakes. I'm not the OP, but if you don't care about theory at all, then I'm the one hoping I never end up where you are. I don't want to waste thoughts on trying to figure out the same damn problem that was solved 20 years ago. Yet, this is exactly what many programmers spend most of their time on.

Right, because principals related to OOP would clearly be useful to COBOL running legacy systems and remembering marketing acronyms are indicative of how much a programmer is going to waste time.

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