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A guy, who made programming worse, especially in enterprise settings.
People don't like tracing what something is doing across seven 12-line functions spread through multiple files?
He'd probably say that 12 lines is waaaay too much!
Yeah, he'd break it into 12 methods that call each other one after the other instead
The code had the single responsibility to waste your time
What suggestion of his is related to that, just out of sheer curiosity?
He says a function should never be longer than 4 lines (in his Clean Code book).
Depends on which parts you look at. There is plenty that he wrote about that have made coding enjoyable, but yes, also plenty that is the opposite.
I never saw his book as a bible though. I always thought of it as a "here are possibly good ideas, see which you and your team likes".