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> There must be an anti-pattern that describes this kind of behavior... Well, the anti-pattern that describes this kind of logic is the Straw Man. If all Desig
by rosser 9y ago
> There must be an anti-pattern that describes this kind of behavior...
Well, the anti-pattern that describes this kind of logic is the Straw Man. If all Design Pattern articles were theoretical blah blah blah, The Fine Article might have a point. They aren't. Not even the majority. As long as we just point to the (bad) minority, and act as if they're representative of the whole, then we can continue to hate all articles about design patterns, and play — because this is just as much a form of "play" as the "learning" or "avoiding" techniques being decried — in our preferred, and specifically unstructured way.
- euske 9y agoCan you pick one DP article that seems good to you, please? I won't complain about the article you'll mention. In both OP and your comment, the lack of a concrete example irks me.
- couchand 9y agoAll of Ward's Wiki.
- geezerjay 9y agoIt seems to me that those making blanket statements on how design patterns are bad or useless are actually the ones who have an obligation to support their baseless assertions. Meanwhile, it seems rather obvious that similar problems can be solved by similar solutions, and experience derived from solving those frequent problems can be levetaged to avoid reinventing the wheel every single time that very same design problem pops up. These solutions have a name: design patterns. It boggles the mind how some people insist in claiming that reusing tried and true solutions is useless.