[frozenlettuce]

I don't know why people take UB seriously. He never provided proof of any work experience - he claims to have worked for just a single company that... never shipped any code into production. Even his code examples on GitHub are just snippets, not even a to-do app (well, I think that his style of "just one thing per function" works as a self-fulfilling prophecy).

Maybe people like him are the reason why we have to do leet code tests (I don't believe he would be capable of solving even an easy problem).

[rester324]

Uncle Bob is one of the core contributors to Fitnesse, which had moderate success in the Java popularity era back in the day.

Also, you do understand that people worked as software engineers even before Github became popular, or open sourcing to begin with, do you? So if someone is 60+ year old, chances are that most of his work has never been open sourced, and his work was targeting use cases, platforms, services which have no utility in this age any more.

Which have all nothing to do with how good a software engineer someone is.

And finally, do you have any proof that he never shipped any code into production?

[imjonse]

> So if someone is 60+ year old, chances are that most of his work has never been open sourced,

John Ousterhout is 70 years old and one of the open source pioneers. We don't know what Uncle Bob shipped or did not ship but his friendly opponent in this discussion definitley did ship high profile projects.

[ahoka]

Do you mean commits to the project like this crap: https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse/commit/d6034080a04c740c...

This level of pointless obfuscation would not survive a code review at any sane dev team.

[fourside]

The criticism was that UB worked at a company that allegedly didn’t ship code to production, not that he doesn’t have a corpus of open source projects on GitHub.

[zabzonk]

> So if someone is 60+ year old, chances are that most of his work has never been open source

Somewhat ageist? I'm 72 and have produced a number of FOSS tools.