Dino Esposito on "conventions"

Dino Esposito on "conventions"

"Conventions when not well explained, understood, and known, are quite dangerous. They do not favor readable code and even may create more issues than they would solve in development scenarios where awareness of conventions is not high. Too many, and too deep conventions, look undistinguishable from magic. Personally, I find acceptable the level of conventions you find in ASP.NET MVC; much less the extreme level of conventions you find in Web API."

This is from his article comparing Web API vs ASP.Net MVC Controllers vs WCF - https://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-framework/building-a-public-http-api-for-data/