One example of Robert Martin’s writing I bring up often enough when he gets mentioned is his blog post type wars, from 2016. In it, he recounts being exposed to Swift and the concept of explicit nullability in the type system, hates it, has a bit of nostalgia for the good ol’ days when C didn’t enforce typechecking, whines about how real programmers don’t use Pascal, and then concludes that TDD makes types and typechecking superfluous.

In the decade since, what actually happened was that TS largely ate JS, and both Python and PHP grew type annotations as a default expectation, while Ruby is barely used outside of rails any more, and Lisp still isn’t on any path back to its old AI heyday.

All in all I guess it’s nice that he has fun with Clojure, but he’s not someone whose recommendations I’d take.

People absolutely stop by coffee shops to get something to go in an urban context too. But the queueing that happens inside one of them, maybe even spilling out of the premises, still requires very little area and is pretty benign in an urban context. Especially if you wind up having a little chat with someone.