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I did feel like Ousterhout kind of undermined his own "comments go a long way in explaining code in longer functions" argument when his example code featured some incorrect comments, which is exactly what Martin warned about.
Honestly neither of them were really wrong anywhere, they just have a different approach. Sometimes I find Martins code split into too many functions, but halfway through there's an example where Martins code is imo definitely clearer than Ousterhouts.
Both of their experience is valuable and is best shared, but not taken as gospel I think.