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Didn’t he invent refactoring? Something that every developer in the world uses every day? Don’t think he’s a bullshitter.

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No he did not. For some reason people think he did.

See following article where he talks about the inventors of refactoring: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/EtymologyOfRefactoring.html?u...

What do you mean some reason? He wrote the book Refactoring that caused everyone to start refactoring. That’s quite a big reason. He literally wrote the book on it.

It would have been okay if he stopped there. I think success went to his head and he became the BSer-in-chief of the software industry after that. The Emperor has no clothes.

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