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Uncle Bob's product is Uncle Bob. If any software gets written, that's entirely coincidental.

• numbsafari 9y ago
  Thank you. He is all about creating a cult of personality. The opening of Clean Code, with its pictures of other respected people and quotes and then the “what about Me” is all about putting him on the same level as all those folks. So, appeal to authority, and then run with “be a human linter”. Also: can we stop calling him “Uncle Bob”, because it’s frankly kinda creepy and paternalistic.
• tincholio 9y ago
  The other day I stumbled across a video of his, explaining monads in Clojure, and I completely agree with you. He's a good salesman, he sells himself and his consulting, and that's about it.
• Slartie 9y ago
  I took several deep dives into a project that he apparently wrote a good bunch of code for, the test automation framework FitNesse. Besides having major conceptual and architectural shortcomings, this piece of software was also easily among the biggest piles of crap I have ever seen, code-quality-wise. Granted, this was 5 or 6 years ago, and it seems to have improved since then, but I still consider it sub-par. So whatever's coming from this guy, I now immediately see this ugly, unreadable code in front of my mental eye when I just hear his name. Quite a fail, considering he called his company "Clean Coders".