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


Patrick May wrote:

Let me reword it: Nobody can/will prove it objectively worse.

That's not a rewording, that's an attempt to squirm out of your
burden of proof.

It would be like asking somebody to prove that Santa does not exist.
It is not possible (unless simultaneous video-cams are put on every
spot).

Nobody HAS SO FAR proven that p/r is objectively worse. Why you expect
people to take your word for it and give up their favorite tools for
60's navigational crap with a new name, I have no idea. Is the
scientific spirit truly dead in software enginering? Are we back to
the days of Alchemy? We are, and people like you seem to like it that
way.

I don't expect perfect science, but you guys cannot even find the door
out of the locker room and onto the scientific playing field. You
won't even try. You vote yourselves the winners in the locker room
without even suiting up.


Sincerely,

Patrick

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