alt Hacker NewsI worked with a junior dev who suddenly got really excited about Clean Code. Every example he brought up left me feeling that there was a kernel of good advice, but the book wanted you to take it to such an extreme that it would result in shitty code.
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ansgri • yesterday at 2:46 PM
I feel like half of junior programmers are susceptible to this.
teddyh • yesterday at 4:02 PM
There is now a second edition of that book which has supposedly been rewritten to fix that.
oldestofsports • yesterday at 5:56 PM
It strongly pushes for max 3 LOC per function, and I am not even joking.
> there was a kernel of good advice, but the book wanted you to take it to such an extreme that it would result in shitty code
I see you're familiar with Uncle Bob's handiwork