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Not that this makes much of a difference since a lot of the academic production isn't coming from people building products but are still incredibly important to
by mlinhares 6y ago
Not that this makes much of a difference since a lot of the academic production isn't coming from people building products but are still incredibly important to help us build software. A lot of the distributed systems work (like stuff Leslie Lamport did) wasn't part of a product but are all seminal to the systems we have nowadays, they might not even exist as they do if people in academia weren't doing research on it.
So you shouldn't stop listening to Uncle Bob because he hasn't built famous software products, but because a lot of the stuff he says is just bullshit not backed by any research or real world experience :)
- sandofsky 6y agoAcademia is (one would hope) built on a logical, provable process. The material should be peer reviewed. Ideally you can independently reproduce findings in a lab. If not, you should absolutely scrutinize it. Martin's work is purely anecdotal, delivered with an authoritative tone. I might excuse that from a John Carmack, who built systems that changed an industry. Yet I've found Carmack's writing quite humble. Thinking of the smartest people I've worked with over my career, none of them used the rhetoric of Martin. But they all made their living building software, not selling books and corporate training.