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teddyh • today at 6:59 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

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.


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maccard • today at 1:17 PM

The exact same can be about agile, and all the arguments against that are the same.

okeuro49 • today at 9:16 AM

I liked the book, so did my colleagues, and we even had a meetup to discuss the book on how to improve the legacy codebase we had inherited.