Personally, I would have gone further. Somehow people forgot the old Ethos of being a programmer working on slow machines that had only 8k of ram or so. This w

Personally, I would have gone further. Somehow people forgot the old Ethos of being a programmer working on slow machines that had only 8k of ram or so. This would train humility, the art of writing small and efficient code, etc. Now kids implement factories all over the place when they are not needed (amongst other patterns), it's a pattern galore really. As if they used fancy data structures regardless if they are needed or not just to float their ego; reassuring themselves that they do know tons of stuff. ah well... Sorry for that rant :)