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Somewhat flippant, but also a serious question - do people like Martin Fowler and uncle bob actually do anything or do they just describe systems that do not (a
by gighjifews 5y ago
Somewhat flippant, but also a serious question - do people like Martin Fowler and uncle bob actually do anything or do they just describe systems that do not (and probably will never) actually exist? Have they built real world software, or do they just describe some ideal state that has never actually occurred in reality - some kind of geek porn?
I’d much rather listen to people who have actually done things than people who have theoretical done things (people who do both are best).
I ask because I thought Rob Pike was one of those people until I found out what he does / has done.
- user3939382 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Fowler_(software_engineer)#Biography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Fowler_(software_engine...
- m0zg 5y agoSo I guess the answer is "no", then? :-)
- galkk 5y agoabout half of "Patterns of Enterprise Applications" reads like introduction/documentation to Hibernate (java's object-relation mapper), also you can see traces of earlier ASP.Net there. I don't know what was first, but this certainly describes frameworks that actually exist.
- denvercoder904 5y agoDoes he have a public github repo? I would love to see some of the code that he writes or projects that he has worked on.
- mdoms 5y agoBob Martin has been promoting his iPad PDP-8 emulator which I guess is something. https://github.com/unclebob/PDP8EmulatorIpad https://github.com/unclebob/PDP8EmulatorIpad
- progbits 5y agoNot to judge anyone by a single repo (I certainly have worse things on my github) but that isn't exactly a shining beacon of good software practices... One small C file (with... creative indentation) and a 2000+ line lua file apparently written by someone unaware of for loops. Not bad per se, but definitely not the kind of project that makes me think I should listen to author's advice.
- mikevm 5y agoFrankly, Bob Martin (let's stop calling him "uncle", please) is a joke. He has a very expensive lecture series called Clean Coders which is goofy, quirky, annoying, and just a plain waste of time and money. He wears goofy costumes, rambles on about irrelevant things and has too many jump cuts. He also peddles things based on zero actual hard evidence... pure opinion.