Re: Critique of Robert C. Martin's "Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices"

topmind wrote:
I have put a draft critique of Robert C. Martin's "Agile Principles,
Patterns, and Practices" on my blog:
I haven't read the entire book (or your entire critique) but I agree database design is not an implementation detail, nor is it irrelevant. I suspect Mr. Martin and I are at opposite ends of this debate. For the past two weeks I've been promoting the belief the database is the biggest and perhaps most important 'object' in the system and your blog's excerpts from his book suggest he believes the opposite.

I suspect he and Martin Fowler (it is reported) both share the opinion that if memory was both infinite and infallible that databases would be unnecessary. Well, perhaps they would be if you never needed to share, duplicate, or transport them.

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