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Can you provide a source where he said that? Or did he actually say something more like "thats when I consider refactoring it"? My recollection of the clean co
by joshribakoff 5y ago
Can you provide a source where he said that? Or did he actually say something more like "thats when I consider refactoring it"?
My recollection of the clean code book and Fowler books were very much “I think these are smells, but smells in the code are also fine”
Note: Robert Martin and Martin Fowler are different people. Are you saying Fowler said this?
- strict9 5y agoIt's directly from the article, and Clean Code was one of the first books I purchased. Fixed the typo, thanks.
- joshribakoff 5y agoThe article is not written by Robert Martin, so that doesn’t necessarily establish he said that. You also implied Fowler said it. Thanks for clarifying. I believe Robert Martin did say this, but there was probably a preface from the book that didn’t make it into the article, so the quote in the article may be a bit out of context.