Software developers, or at least some that I know, have sighed with relief after listening to the Episode 41 of the StackOverflow podcast . What was starting to look like a new 'religious' war has come to a peaceful solution when the parties have sudenly found the inner stregth and responisbility to apologise to each other for their previously expressed probably-not-so-wise statements.
The main issue was around the fact that in one of the previous episodes, during discussion of software quality, Jeff Atwood (one of the authors of StackOverflow) said that "quality doesn't matter that much" and referred to the Robert Martin's SOLID principles. A very heated discussion followed.
Of course, the authors of the podcast did not mean to attack the core principles of the agile methodology, let alone Uncle Bob himself. The altercation was not in anybody's interest and has come to a quick and peaceful solution. Robert Martin has accepted the invitation to be a special guest of the podcast, which seems to be a very respectful gesture that should benefit also (or mainly) most software developers who would prever to hear civilized, merit-based, technological discussions over personal bickering.
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