It’s huge progress that no one so far in this thread has mentioned any of Robert Martin’s books. Compared to 10 years ago in the linked thread, that is definitely progress.
Not OP, but I agree with the sentiment. To me, it seemed like for a long time, people accepted whatever Martin said as “the right way” without much thought. He has had many good ideas, but also some bad ones. “Clean Code” hasn’t aged well, for example. There are a bunch of good ideas in it that happily have become commonplace (and so don’t require a the book anymore), but many bad ones too. Usually the book was recommended without qualification.
And personally, I always chafed at the “Uncle Bob” moniker. I’m a grown-ass man, and I’m not calling some random guy “Uncle Bob” unless he’s related to me. Calling yourself “Uncle Bob” seems creepy, and it makes me feel like I’m supposed to look up to him by default. No. I’d rather look to people like Rich Hickey or John Ousterhout, who have no similar pretensions. They’re just experienced practitioners sharing what they’ve learned.
Is unit test driven development fundamentalism politics?
His attitude towards development has always been way too dogmatic with not nearly enough focus on trade offs. It's probably not a coincidence that his politics trend that way too but it doesn't affect how good or bad his advice is.
i will go along with that - what an arsehole he is.
edit: and oops, someone has recommended clean code.
and again: i remember when he tried to set himself up on stackoverflow (a while back, when i was a front page contributor)- he got pissed on from a great height.
