Absolute nonsense, people claiming that on here are usually hiding their deep political biases and as liberal lefties dont like it when someone in their space calls a spade a spade, especially someone with a lot more reach and respect. Slightly different playbook than calling everything you disagree with racist. Yawn spells are spent. This is how they attack Bob now because they realize being a leftie is ridiculous and this “im a centralist” crap carries no weight, so they hide that and try to attack him on his contributions to software engineering.

From what I understand, it is mostly the very rigid and prescriptive attitude which the average reader gets from his book, which, if you listen to him talk, was not his intent. He even published a new 2025 edition of “Clean Code” to try and fix this, by making the text less self-assured. So while he may or may not be responsible, he did not intend it.

think you mean "psychological damage". Can you give some examples of what you mean?