johnousterhout/aposd-vs-clean-code
A discussion between John Ousterhout and Robert Martin about differences between John's book "A Philosophy of Software Design" and Bob's book "Clean Code".
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Hacker News discussions
- Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design (488 points, 542 comments, by recursivedoubts, 2025-02-24)
- John Ousterhout and Uncle Bob discuss John's disagreements with Clean Code (14 points, 2 comments, by discreteevent, 2025-02-24)
- A philosophy of Software design vs. Clean Code (5 points, 1 comments, by philosopher1234, 2025-02-23)
- Clean Code vs. a Philosophy of Software Design (5 points, 1 comments, by birdculture, 2026-01-06)
- "A Philosophy of Software Design" vs. "Clean Code" (4 points, 0 comments, by matt_d, 2025-02-23)
- Discussion about Differences in "A Philosophy of Software Design", "Clean Code" (3 points, 0 comments, by thunderbong, 2025-02-24)
- A Philosophy of Software Design vs. Clean Code (3 points, 1 comments, by akbarnama, 2025-08-31)
- John Ousterhout and "Uncle Bob" Martin Discussion (2 points, 0 comments, by signa11, 2025-04-08)
- A Philosophy of Software Design vs. Clean Code (2 points, 0 comments, by piqufoh, 2025-11-05)
- Aposd-vs-clean-code: A discussion between John Ousterhout and Robert Martin (1 points, 0 comments, by Bogdanp, 2025-09-22)
- A Philosophy of Software Design vs. Clean Code (2024) (1 points, 0 comments, by eden-u4, 2025-11-13)
- A Philosophy of Software Design vs. Clean Code (1 points, 0 comments, by st3v3nmw, 2026-01-01)