I too identify strongly with Rich Hickey's view on this. That's not to say Uncle Bob is wrong, but I don't think he is as clear a communicator. I see Uncle Bob as having a lot of wisdom that he is able to apply based on his experience but which becomes very hand-wavy when he tries to explain it.
UB happens to be flatly wrong. UB says that docucomments re-stating what the simple function does are excessive and bad. This is totally wrong when one looks at the generated documentation, but UB doesn't seem to use the documentation much. He seems to be one of the people who prefer digging through the code, even if presented with sensible API documentation.
I understand he's a polarizing figure and is overly prescriptive of things that are a matter of style, but his stance on documentation doesn't seem germane here.
