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

"topmind" <topmind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Patrick May wrote:
Second, you haven't shown that a solution that "embraced the DB"
would be shorter, more understandable, more maintainable, more
extensible, more easily testable, or "simpler" by any other metric.

I don't claim I can show it objectively better.

Actually, you did. Your exact words were: "If you embraced the
DB instead of spend all your code wrapping it, the app would be
noticably simpler." That's a positive claim about an objective
measurement.

It just won't be objectively worse.

That's another positive claim. Prove it.

Sincerely,

Patrick

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