No patronising intended; one can never be sure of another's context on here. I try to assume positive intent and honest, direct questions. Now that I have a se

No patronising intended; one can never be sure of another's context on here. I try to assume positive intent and honest, direct questions. Now that I have a sense of what you know, I'm having a hard time answering your reiterated question without being patronising. Maybe I don't understand it. You're asking if the creators of the most influential software development practice in the industry have ever done anything _else_ influential. And when someone points to the SOLID principles, which are arguably some of the most influential software design patterns of the last 30 years, that's not acceptable. It's fine if you, personally, don't like software design patterns or SOLID principles, or if you've got some other iconoclasting thing going on. But you can't deny that that is an important system which has impacted our entire industry - particularly on questions of software quality - much more than many famous products. Candy Crush, Wordpress, and Excel are the first products that come to mind, and having seen the codebase for two of those... they don't have anything to add to discussions of software quality. :) But if you're aware of Uncle Bob's contributions, then I presume familiarity with the contributions of others like Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, Ward Cunningham, Jeff Sutherland, etc. So I'm not sure what would convince you that these people have some worthwhile opinions to consider. They were lead developers at consulting companies and large research labs, all with decades of experience by that time. I dunno, does it impress you that Kent Beck worked at facebook, or that he wrote the precursor to and first versions of JUnit? Or that he did the famous Christler C3 compensation system?