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combinatorylogic

is a paradigm rejected by the industry 30 years ago

Ok, I got it, you enjoy being an obnoxious liar. It suits you, actually.

and the approach you are selling is dead

Do you really think that your incompetent opinion on this topic matters? Really? You're ignorant, and it's your choice. You can either try to learn, or stay ignorant.

And yes, you're exactly a very convincing example of why people hate uncle bob zealots.

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Do you really think that your incompetent opinion on this topic matters?

Matters enough for you to spend three days arguing with me about it.

uncle bob zealots.

Once again. Never once defended Bob in any way and that makes me a zealot.

Give. Up. Griffiths.

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Matters enough for you to spend three days arguing with me about it.

You're a lost cause, as I stated pretty much straight away that uncle bob fans are beyond any hope. I'm providing arguments for passers by who might otherwise get swayed by your destructive preaching.

Never once defended Bob in any way and that makes me a zealot.

You're defending his position on in-line comments - that's sufficient, given that it's pretty much a core tenet of his religion. If you walk like a clean code zealot and quack like a clean code zealot, you're a clean code zealot by all practical means.

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Ross • Edited

uncle bob fans are beyond any hope

Third time: I'm not an uncle bob fanatic or even a fan. Never once even slightly indicated that might be the case. I proposed one of his assertions as a discussion to which you have thrown yourself at.

your destructive preaching.

Haven't preached once. You however...

You're defending his position on in-line comments

I'm playing devils advocate with a single assertion to promote healthy, polite discussion.

If you walk like a clean code zealot and quack like a clean code zealot, you're a clean code zealot by all practical means.

Appear to lightly agree with something == zealot. Yes, exactly the same thing. For a mathematician your logic is shocking. I can see why you need so many comments in your code, because you're clearly incapable of anything but typing and endless stream of completely illogical tripe.

I wont be responding to anymore of your nonsensical rubbish.

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I proposed one of his assertions as a discussion to which you have thrown yourself at.

Not just one, but the most controversial one, which also happens to be the core belief of his entire "clean code" system. Everything else is immaterial in comparison.

Haven't preached once.

You keep insisting on a lie that in-line comments get stale in no time, because developers are lazy. And you propose a solution of having all that documentation elsewhere, because somehow magically it won't get stale this way. Which is 100% identical to all the arguments of uncle bob and his unhinged followers. You walk like them, you quack like them, you're one of them. By definition. No matter what your motivation for taking this position is.

I'm playing devils advocate with a single assertion to promote healthy, polite discussion.

And you just demonstrated your own project that practices exactly what you preach here. So much for a devils advocate.

Also, what "healthy discussion" you're talking about, if you dismiss all the arguments of why the opposite approach works better as "trust me, I have 20 years of experience, so take my word that it's not how the industry works, it was abandoned 30 years ago, and don't you even dare to argue, because I have 20 years of experience" (and then repeat it a dozen of times more, in case if someone missed the super important fact that you have 20 years of experience). The funny thing here is that you honestly believe that you even have sufficient credibility to speak for the entire industry. Your attitude to arguments is as far from anything "healthy" as possible, so don't be surprised when people treat you like a troll.

Appear to lightly agree with something == zealot. Yes, exactly the same thing.

Not just "something", but the defining tenet of the religious system. Believing in the core beliefs of a religion makes you a follower. And the fact that you find this solid logic "shocking" is pretty much consistent with everything else - your OOP zealotry, your lack of experience, your misguided manners.