> even a tiny weekend project will take near infinite time to handle all of these cases.
A "tiny weekend project" assumes, by definition, a tiny userbase. The point is to assume nothing about a dataset, because even dozens of seemingly reasonable expectations about names are wrong.
The point of the article is not to tell you to immediately write perfect code, but to make you aware of your code's limitations.
A "tiny weekend project" assumes, by definition, a tiny userbase. The point is to assume nothing about a dataset, because even dozens of seemingly reasonable expectations about names are wrong.
The point of the article is not to tell you to immediately write perfect code, but to make you aware of your code's limitations.