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Robert Martin, to my knowledge, was never a Smalltalker, and received an enormous amount of flack in the Smalltalk community for making a lot negative, uninform
by kab 16y ago
Robert Martin, to my knowledge, was never a Smalltalker, and received an enormous amount of flack in the Smalltalk community for making a lot negative, uninformed statements about Smalltalk at that conference. Uncle Bob started, by his own admission, as a Cobol programmer and later transitioned into C++ and Java, where he did the bulk of his work in OO consulting and authoring. He only started to branch out into more "exotic" languages a few years ago.
- steveklabnik 16y agoMy bad. When I first watched that video, I thought I specifically remembered Martin talking about the community in an inclusive way. So he's a bad example. Regardless, I still stand by the original point: I wouldn't make such sweeping generalizations about the ignorance of an entire community of people.