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Re:It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020) by javajosh on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @06:51PM (#27283792)
Software is to alchemy what software engineering is to chemistry. Software engineering hasn't been invented yet. You need a systematizing scientific revolution (Kuhn style) before you can or should create a regulatory body to enforce it. Otherwise you're just enforcing your particular brand of alchemy.
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Re:It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020) by bumby on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @07:26PM (#27284106)
Well said. In the 1990s, in the aerospace software domain it was a once referred to an era of “cave drawings”
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