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Question to fellow coders: Can anyone comment how, if at all, these books are different from classics in the field, such as The Practice of Programming, The El
by pkrumins 9y ago
Question to fellow coders:
Can anyone comment how, if at all, these books are different from classics in the field, such as The Practice of Programming, The Elements of Programming Style, The Pragmatic Programmer, or Complete Complete?
I can't think of anything new that another book on writing good code could say, that hasn't been said already.
That's why I haven't looked at these books yet. It feels to me these books are like another book about Newtonian mechanics, there just can't be anything new.
Thoughts?
- meritt 9y agoSome quick research led to a number of threads that were fairly critical of this author: "his writings are only here to promote himself, his books and his consultancy" and "a windbag" and "self-aggrandizing". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14664210 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14664210 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/mpusp/9_things_i_learned_from_reading_the_clean_coder/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/mpusp/9_things... https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3q5n9q/just_finished_reading_this_clean_code_robert_c/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3q5n9q/just_fi...