You're missing the point. The purpose of this post was to illustrate how silly little differences in coding style cause lots of unnecessary work. The agnostic's version was the best in this illustration because they knew what the requirements were. You can easily adapt the ascetic's, the librarian's, and the purist's version into the "right" code as well.
The point is that we each have our own different style of doing things, and frankly, I'm a bit incensed that you're using this post to hold up your way of doing things as the "one true" way of doing things while calling everyone else a "poser". I think this comment is exactly what the author is trying to say is bad.
The point is that we each have our own different style of doing things, and frankly, I'm a bit incensed that you're using this post to hold up your way of doing things as the "one true" way of doing things while calling everyone else a "poser". I think this comment is exactly what the author is trying to say is bad.