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The ugly reality is consultants like Martin have little production coding experience. Martin has posts going back to the early 90s showing he had little underst
by Scubabear68 2mo ago
The ugly reality is consultants like Martin have little production coding experience. Martin has posts going back to the early 90s showing he had little understanding of how software teams work and deliver value.
From what I have seen, his ideas were formed in a vacuum divorced from real coding. You can see it in the small amounts of open source he has released. The kind of guy who will always prefer 50 classes to 5. Who clutches his pearls at an if statement.
I remember he was invited to give a talk at Bloomberg and the majority of us were simply disgusted that an obvious hack like him was lecturing a group of software engineers who had really been there and done that.
- bheadmaster 2mo agoThose who can't do, teach.
- nixon_why69 2mo agoI hate that phrase. There are billions of people who can't code and also aren't teaching it. And plenty of people who are good at something and enjoy giving back and sharing in the form of teaching.
- mathgeek 2mo agoI really enjoy the somewhat sarcastic retort. Those who can’t teach: don’t.
- julian_t 2mo agoI prefer the version attributed to Aristotle: "Those who can, do; those who understand, teach" A good teacher needs a deep understanding of their topic, often deeper that that required to be a do-er only.
- bsoles 2mo agoThis comment cannot be overstated. Armchair "software engineers" like them do a lot of disservice to the community by promoting non-workable solutions in real production environments. On the other side, I still consider McConnell's Code Complete to be a gem.