Those who know, know.
There are no inherent "rules" in software development. These books are useless and a waste of time. They offer nothing but CS Dogma and are actually against freedom of expression.
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Rules of thumb can be very useful for a relatively inexperienced programmer, and once you understand why they exist you can choose to ignore them when they would get in the way. Clean Code is totally unhinged though
The problem is that a lot of people don't understand when to ignore the rules and just stick with them forever.
We had a developer once that always said KISS KISS KISS whenever we pointed out that her functions are working but not reusable, so she wrote 20 functions that all did the same thing, but with slightly different parameters. And that's just one of the examples
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New edition is just an incoherent rant about the “woke mind virus” trying to destroy him for “just saying what everyone is thinking”.
This! Uncle Bob is a garbage person. Used to really respect him, but F that guy.
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Those of you who red and liked clean code (I did too), what's your next best recommendation as a book? The pragmatic programmer?
I was a big Uncle Bob fan and still really like the Clean Code book. But he trashed his public reputation so I doubt this 2nd edition will do very well.
I am also a big fan of his books, especially Clean Code. His (far-)right opinions are bad, but should be (to some extent) viewed separately from his technical standpoints. However, even then a new edition would not perform well, there are too many people hating Clean Code (without really understanding its message/just ranting without having read it). But I was very surprised that ThePrimeagen recently interviewed his "opponent", it was very nice to watch.
Is there a TL;DR if I don't know who this is?
Basically he is an old man/ software engineer who's famous for his philosophy of coding.
I'm of the opinion that Uncle Bob did some massive damage to software development as a whole with that book.
With that said, this is genuinely funny.
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oh no somebody stop please him
Ooh la la 😏