Comment by Lyngbakr
9 months ago
> It still blows my mind how dogmatic some people can be about things like this. I don't understand why anyone takes these things as gospel.
IMO, this is one of the key differences between the two books. CC has a vibe of hard and fast opinion-based rules that you must obey, whereas APoSD feels more like empirically-derived principles or guidelines.
APoSD is written by a highly respected computer scientist with a tremendous list of technical achievements and also a strong teaching history as a professor, while CC was written by someone whose resume is primarily related to writing about software, not writing software.
CC was written by a man who worked with a highly respected man .. let that sink :)