M. Fowler, Uncle Bob, Kent Beck, GoF authors...

Any book or post by these people is always brought up as a must read. A must read to understand why you should *not follow cargo cults* and see with your own eyes how toxic and damaging these guys are to software engineering culture.

In one hand, I'd say these guys are absolutely revered among computer science students (their main target to sell their books) and developers who have been stuck in the OOP and design pattern rabbit hole for decades without evolving.

In the other hand, the criticism is more present that ever. It's ironic, because the criticism has even lead Uncle Bob to jump the wagon and start to sell Functional Programming in Clojure as a new super *secret formula* and *best practice for real engineers*.