There are programmers whose chief opinions are functional: what kind of problems some piece of code can lead to, vs those whose chief complaint is aesthetic "not functional enough", "style guide", etc.
I am losing patience for the later every year.
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@iamnoah when you're a really good engineer, subtle functional judgements present themselves to you aesthetically (code that looks ugly to you turns out to harbour bugs). Linus Torvalds calls it "taste".
The problem, of course, comes when you *think* you're that good but aren't. Only reliable way I know for determining if someone has taste is to ask someone else whom you know has it & is familiar with their output.
