Comment by bena
5 years ago
The problem with Clean Code is also the problem with saying to ignore Clean Code. If you treat everything as a dogmatic rule on how to do things, you're going to have a bad time.
Because, they're more like guidelines. If you try not to repeat yourself, you'll generally wind up with better code. If you try to make your methods short, you'll generally wind up with better code.
However, if you abuse partial just to meet some arbitrary length requirement, then you haven't really understood the reason for the guideline.
But the problem isn't so much because the book has a mix of good and bad recommendations. We as an evolutionary race have been pretty good at selectively filtering out bad recommendations over the long term.
The problem is that Uncle Bob has a delusional cult following (that he deliberately cultivated), which takes everything he says at face value, and are willing to drown out any dissenting voices with a non-stop barrage of bullshit platitudes.
There are plenty of ideas in Clean Code that are great, and there are plenty that are terrible...but the religiosity of adherence to it prevents of from separating the two.