This review is largely in response to the article “It’s probably time to stop recommending Clean Code”, and the ensuing Reddit discussion. A lot of really interesting points were brought up, but the big question that the author themself wasn’t able to answer was: “What should we recommend instead?” I believe the book we should be recommending is A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout. In this post I want to spend a bit of time reviewing it and giving an overview of the...| jonathan-frere.com