>It's almost a joke. To me it's reminiscent of looking at beginner programmers. You see them do crazy things like calculate a date "next month" by taking apart

>It's almost a joke. To me it's reminiscent of looking at beginner programmers. You see them do crazy things like calculate a date "next month" by taking apart the pretty-printed date string, parsing to find the month, realising that sometimes the day part is one digit and sometimes it's two, then having to worry about m-d-y or d-m-y formats, building little tables of "days per month" and leap years... and so on. This illustrates the entire field of programming as we know it. It actually happens among all programmers but for less obvious things. Especially with design patterns. I've seen programmers use so much structure for the sake of a design pattern on something that could otherwise be 10x simpler.