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I totally agree, it basically is one of the few instances in programming where you really can't get around needing experience. At the time of writing the majori

by emsy 8y ago

I totally agree, it basically is one of the few instances in programming where you really can't get around needing experience. At the time of writing the majority of top level comments were arguing against the pattern, but it's useful to at least know about alternatives instead of just declaring them as bad.

Serow225 8y ago
Agreed, in my experience this is the real difference between mediocre/OK/excellent programmers; the ability to choose the "right" level of encapsulation and abstraction at design time. It's definitely not always correlated with experience, although finding someone relatively junior on the good+ side of the scale is a real find because as you said the school of hard knocks tends to be the best teacher in this realm. IMHO Most anyone can learn to program at a reasonable level, but not everyone can do design well; see bootcamp graduates(and also "ten years of the same 1year of experience)…