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combinatorylogic

Looks like you always worked with some truly awful programmers.

My criteria for a good programmer is not any technical competency, not some arcane CS knowledge, etc. The best programmers I met are good writers.

Once again, you cannot keep documentation up to date. Only if your code and your documentation are the same they can be kept in sync. Then any pull request is trivial to verify - you see all the documentation context right in front of you, and if the code change proposed is going against what is said in the text, it's obvious immediately.

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Ross

Well, point is we disagree at a very fundamental level. I asked about comments in how people code, your complaint was that everyone but you does it wrong, called Uncle Bob a "buffoon" and everyone I've ever worked with for 20 years a "truly awful programmer".

So keep preaching, nobody is jumping on such a bitter train.

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combinatorylogic

your complaint was that everyone but you does it wrong

Lol. Do you have any idea of how many people are using, say, Jupyter notebooks?

called Uncle Bob a "buffoon"

And I'm not alone. Any sane person looks at uncle bob with nothing more than a plain disgust.

and everyone I've ever worked with for 20 years a "truly awful programmer"

Again, it happens in certain industries. Good programmers try to stay away from such places. Birds of feather, and so on.

And yes, I have a very good reason to believe that anyone who takes uncle bob bullshit seriously is lost forever, and I'd do whatever I can to never work with such toxic, destructive people.