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Perhaps a professional software developer can answer this question: the notion of good and poor programming practices have existed for decades.
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Yes. And the notions change every decade or so.
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While there is some disagreement as to what those practices are, they are typically emphasize maintainability and are among the first things that people learn when they learn how to program.
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Nope. On both counts.
Programming practices are about programming. Rarely do they take into account actual production support. They are usually some idea that percolates out of academia (you know, the people who don't program for a living).
Rarely do you learn programming practices when learning to program. Usually you're just trying to get the damn thing to work, and the instructors are more interested in whether your program works than how maintainable it is.
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Modern languages and libraries facilitate these programming practices.
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Modern languages are usually the cause of bad coding practices.
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When we are talking about ereaders, there are typically sufficient resources to use those languages and libraries.
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Actually, modern languages are generally not used in eReaders. eReaders are embedded devices, and there aren't enough resources to use modern languages. Generally the devices will be coded in C or C++, neither of which is currently a modern language.
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Given all of that, how is it possible to make code so obtuse that it is difficult to add an extra font size?
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Very easily.