No, he's your drunk uncle who sounds smart when you're young. When you learn to form opinions of your own, you realize that his opinions are worthless hot air.
Many years ago I went to a session where he promoted asynchronous Javascript as the "one true way." In the Q&A, I pointed out that callbacks made code much harder to read and maintain compared to threaded code; and then asked if there was a cleaner way to do it.
His answer was quite rude. A few years later, we got the "async" keyword, which solved the problem.
No, he's your drunk uncle who sounds smart when you're young. When you learn to form opinions of your own, you realize that his opinions are worthless hot air.
Many years ago I went to a session where he promoted asynchronous Javascript as the "one true way." In the Q&A, I pointed out that callbacks made code much harder to read and maintain compared to threaded code; and then asked if there was a cleaner way to do it.
His answer was quite rude. A few years later, we got the "async" keyword, which solved the problem.