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I personally think that there's merit in constraint. It breeds creativity and allows people to produce ingenious solutions for the problems that they encounter.

Imagine if chess changes its fundamental rules every now and then. Maybe the board size increases a square every two hours or so. That simple rate of change on chess would hamper solutions that people could come up to in solving their problems.

Full disclosure: I'm neither a professional programmer nor a ``standards'' expert.

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~gerwitz wrote (thread):

My day job is in design, so I completely agree! But the rules of constraint must be well designed themselves, which requires some up-front experimentation. After all, chess wasn’t the chess we know at first.