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Uncle Bob was interesting 10 years ago. But the world moved on from what he's selling. Some people bought his product, other's didn't. The truth is gray and we
by gzeu73 13y ago
Uncle Bob was interesting 10 years ago. But the world moved on from what he's selling. Some people bought his product, other's didn't. The truth is gray and we need to decide for ourselves which rules to follow and which rules to sometimes break.
Can we please not upvote this any more? Let's keep this sort of thing as an interesting footnote to programmer history, like Joel is now.
- tzaman 13y agoSo what you're saying is that best development practices somehow grow old and die? I'd love to hear what the alternatives are if you think what Uncle Bob and Joel preach is obsolete.
- parasubvert 13y agoMuch of what Joel preached is pretty opposed to Uncle Bob. I would put Joel's opinions and advice as "somewhat interesting" on a scale where Bob Martin's advice on Agile, OOP, and testing "defined a generation of developers".
- willvarfar 13y agoWhilst the nursery generation may have been defined by Bob, and needs GC, the perm gen like Joel ;)
- mcphage 13y ago...huh?
- willvarfar 13y agoGenerational Garbage Collection.