Intelligent people often dismiss Robert Martin's writings because he has very extreme/condescending opinions about programmming without having the hacker cred to match them. (See 10ren's post above for an example of his condescending attitude and an extreme opinion).
Someone like Linus Torvalds can pull this off, Bob Martin, not so much. Linus nearly always has good reasons for his stated beliefs and agree or disagree you can see why he says what he says. Also he is an acknowledged uber hacker. Bob Martin does write code(Fitnesse) unlike most other agile "guru"/consultant types, but it isn't really anything extraordinary (which is all right, as long as he doesn't presume to then teach other people how to program "correctly").
It is interesting that a great hacker like Peter Norvig is modest and unassuming and chooses his words carefully, as does Knuth for example, while people like Ron Jeffries and "Uncle" Bob say outrageous things with nothing to back them up but faith in their ideology .. err.. methodology .
Someone like Linus Torvalds can pull this off, Bob Martin, not so much. Linus nearly always has good reasons for his stated beliefs and agree or disagree you can see why he says what he says. Also he is an acknowledged uber hacker. Bob Martin does write code(Fitnesse) unlike most other agile "guru"/consultant types, but it isn't really anything extraordinary (which is all right, as long as he doesn't presume to then teach other people how to program "correctly").
It is interesting that a great hacker like Peter Norvig is modest and unassuming and chooses his words carefully, as does Knuth for example, while people like Ron Jeffries and "Uncle" Bob say outrageous things with nothing to back them up but faith in their ideology .. err.. methodology .