And my point is that it’s not — the starting pieces may differ, and thus the conclusions, but there’s clearly a qualitative difference between the opinion of an expert, and the opinion of a novice. If only that the expert brings far more knowledge into his opinion than the novice. But also in that his opinion is of better foundation, of more supporting infrastructure, of more stable reasoning, and can in general be both better explained and better defended.
Opinions don’t exist in a void — they’re still the outcome of argument, and can easily be compared by that ruler.
And in this case, it’s trivial to imagine utterly terrible opinionated outcomes — use hyphen to represent addition, having functions like c’s get() (impossible to use correctly, and having defaults that are backwards in the common case.
It’s also trivial to imagine what a poorly reasoned opinion might look like: “ what's what opinions are - they necessarily must be wrong to some people. Otherwise, it'd just be called facts!”
