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He's not your uncle. And who the hell they think they are? I mean, I know Fowler the uml guy, but the rest, I think that this is a joke.

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"Uncle Bob" goes by Uncle Bob. It's a nickname. He likes it. He's also pretty well respected in the software development world.

Kent Beck invented TDD, I think he's pretty qualified.

DHH is the one who started the recent discussion about the value of TDD; in his opinion, it doesn't have any. He's the reason that this conversation is even happening.

I know who Robert Martin is, and writing tests before implementing it was described I think back in the 60's, though I don't want to disrespect Kent, DHH is trying really hard to make himself a name by sensational titles. Calling yourself as an uncle for unknown people is a dick move though, very pretentious.

Just to sum it up, this whole new pseudohollywars is just Random noise, just like my comment.

Just to be clear, the name "Uncle Bob" was given to me by a coworker in 1989. It was in my email and uunet signature for years. (There are kids out there who don't know what uunet was). The name stuck, and I eventually adopted it as a brand.

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