> On Jun 18, 2024, at 5:04 PM, David Gebler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2024, 17:40 Robert Landers, <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hello internals,
>
> Many, many people start their files fairly religiously:
>
> <?php declare(strict_types=1);
>
> and I say "religiously" because from talking to people in real life,
> reddit, workplaces, etc, very few php programmers actually know what
> this does but do it nonetheless.
>
> I think there's almost certainly a degree of truth, not just in PHP but programming in
> general, in the idea that there are many people who will blindly follow a convention for no better
> reason they once heard someone they considered more senior than themselves say the words "best
> practice"
There is a notable term for that: "Cargo Cult Programming":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming>
#fwiw
-Mike