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[โ€“] arxdat@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are no inherent "rules" in software development. These books are useless and a waste of time. They offer nothing but CS Dogma and are actually against freedom of expression.

[โ€“] sus@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Rules of thumb can be very useful for a relatively inexperienced programmer, and once you understand why they exist you can choose to ignore them when they would get in the way. Clean Code is totally unhinged though