A SOLID Load of Bull
A SOLID Load of Bull “SOLID” is an acronym devised by the famous advocate Robert C. Martin, to popularise what is now known as the SOLID principles. There are five of them: one good, one obsolete, and three invented by Martin himself. Robert Martin is not your average Joe. I’ve watched him, he’s a very good speaker: articulate, driven, and entertaining. I’ve read his prose, he knows his rhetoric, how to deflect criticism, and how to play with the audience. I’ve seen his code, or at least the samples he carefully selected to be educational material, and holly crap that’s bad! Not to beat on the Clean Code dead horse, but the code examples alone should have been enough to make any competent programmer sceptical of anything Martin has to say about programming. Unfortunately…
