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CC seems to be Design Patterns meets Moral Harassment

It turns development teams into a judgemental arena, demeaning of other colleagues and a race to see who follows "the gospel" closer to the letter

Who says their code is clean? Who says that's the best way of doing things? In all cases?

It just reeks of "I'm better than the rest", which is already a problem in the industry.

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While I agree that can devolve into a dogmatic belief system, I also think that that's partly a people problem.

Many of the ideas in Clean Code make code more readable (for example small methods, each containing only one level of abstraction; or good naming). It's on the coders to know how far to take these ideas and when to be pragmatic and say "good enough".

> It's on the coders to know how far to take these ideas and when to be pragmatic and say "good enough".

Which works in theory, in practice it's not that that easy, especially since UB seems to cater for the most "religious" ones

It isn't easy, but so far I've had luck with my co-workers. If they were more dogmatic, I think I would see Clean Code more critical too. But as it stands, I still recommend the book to new colleagues, and our culture takes care that we don't follow each "law" to its letter.

Yes isn't easy, that's why I'd rather avoid it

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