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> dictionaries of possible classes Sounds like a horror show built by people who don't understand OOP.

• Doxin 7y ago
  Sounds like a group of people succumbing to the inner platform effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect It's not nearly as uncommon as I'd like.
  • MaxBarraclough 7y ago
    It doesn't sound like inner-platform-effect to me. teddyuk didn't say they were reinventing the wheel, just that they were doing awful things with dictionaries.
    • teddyuk 7y ago
      I started reading the article: “ The inner-platform effect is the tendency of software architects to create a system so customizable...” Yup, that was it and I have seen it so many times - architects should think that a flexible system that “can just” handle any possible future requirement. This always ends in a mess of junk that isn’t actually needed by the business.