> Sensible people have always hated him Sensible people should have a rather high bar for hating people. > what products has he ever produced? His impact has

> Sensible people have always hated him Sensible people should have a rather high bar for hating people. > what products has he ever produced? His impact hasn't so much been physical products as teaching. He has taught a lot of useful stuff. For me there is one particular conference 12 or so years ago that I still thibk of again and again. It is about refactoring methods and it was brilliant and by following the resulting code becomes much easier to reason about. Some reason needs ro be applied, but less than if I hadn't learned those ideas.