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If you want your criticism to be taken seriously, please be specific. There is apparently a large group of people who hate everything he does and also, seeming
by teddyh 4y ago
If you want your criticism to be taken seriously, please be specific.
There is apparently a large group of people who hate everything he does and also, seemingly, him personally. Everywhere he (or any of his books) is mentioned, the haters come out, with their vague “it’s all bad” and the old standard “I don’t know where to begin”. Serious criticism can be found (if you look for it), and he himself welcomes it, but the constant vague hate is scary to see.
- tester756 4y agoYears wasted on having to convincing people that "comments are viable" because they misunderstood Clean Code
- teddyh 4y agoSounds like people being stupid? I mean, he never says that comments are not viable: like you say, they misunderstand the book.
- tmaly 4y agoOn that one point, he should issue clarification and release a new version.
- teddyh 4y agoHave you read the book? I checked it now, and I think he expresses himself quite clearly.
- cokeandpepsi 4y agoI don't hate everything he does and I'd imagine he's probably an interesting guy to chat with there is a subset of 'clean code' fanatics who treat his work as religious text and tend to produce some of the most bloated unmanagable code bases I've run into I wouldn't even say his work is valueless but it's a horrible starting point and shouldn't be a destiation
- teddyh 4y agoAgain, criticism without any specifics. And people misinterpreting and doing bad things (which he would agree is bad), is that his fault?