> Clean code... To this day I cringe when I see methods/functions over 20 lines long.. Or when I see commented code blocks in one function..
To this day I cringe when I see dogmatic opinions of a fraud taken like an absolute truth.
To this day I cringe when I see dogmatic opinions of a fraud taken like an absolute truth.
I looked around and found this video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb9VPWbrqmE][Uncle Bob (Robert Martin) is a Fraud!!!]] but most of the comments are dismissive of the review.
qntm did an extensive overview of this: https://qntm.org/clean
I'm not sure if fraud is quite the right word but he gets a lot of flak on HN for being something of a religious fanatic. E.g. the top comment in this thread:
https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/robert-martin - this is a good article
> While Martin advocates for a small, dogmatic, and incorrect set of technical ideas for making code better, that's not why most people are upset with him — it's far more common for people to be upset about his views on race and gender, and particularly the way that someone in a position of power expressing those views hurts people in the communities that he's a part of
Uncle Bob puts forth a couple of good ideas from time to time, but none of those good ideas are his.