Bret Devereaux

The problem with the term "clean code" is it's used as both a generic term for code aesthetics and organization and as specific jargon for Robert Martin's highly idiosyncratic philosophy on code aesthetics, which he also calls "Clean Code".

I don't know which use came first, but I suspect Martin was first with his book "Clean Code", and then the term became generic, much in the same way that band-aid is a brand name that's become a generic term. The problem is that bandaid ≈ bandaid, but Clean Code ≠ clean code

This allows Clean Coders to straw man people who dislike the extreme aesthetics of Clean Code. If you dislike `isLeastRelevantMultipleOfNextLargerPrimeFactor`, then you're OBVIOUSLY against any kind of code aesthetics, might as well name everything "x3 = f1(f2(x1), x2)"

Like, I can argue that OverlyVerboseNames hamper the skill ceiling because they're too verbose to internalize and take up too much horizontal space. Code is cleaner when identifiers are shorter. But this conflicts with central tenets of Clean Code, so people say its not clean