Re:It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)
by phendrenad2 on Friday February 17, 2023 @10:54PM
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What's important is that people have the shared language of Clean Code (or some other repository of best practices, could be integrated into your company styleguide, for instance). I.E. If Uncle Bob said "Don't do X" then we can have a conversation in that context if, in this scenario, doing X is acceptable. Without that logical reasoning, people will debate the very existence of "not doing X" as a best practice.
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Re:It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)
by DanielVZ on Friday February 17, 2023 @11:37PM
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Except having these discussions is really hard. It ends up being you against uncle bob and you are not gonna win that argument against a senior-er engineer.
Re:It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)
by leftbit on Saturday February 18, 2023 @04:54AM
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Don't think so. If the senior engineer is worth his salt he should know that programming is always about finding a balance between several aspects of a given problem - some of them technical, some of them human. As long as the code does what it's supposed to do the rest is mostly up to personal taste - so yes, you can have an insightful discussion, but there's only to learn, nothing to "win" for all participants.