Fat models are clearly a bad idea. But DDD (also called view models elsewhere in this discussion) seem to be better than function based views. My bias comes fr

Fat models are clearly a bad idea. But DDD (also called view models elsewhere in this discussion) seem to be better than function based views. My bias comes from working in a dot-com era startup which had a single 2000 line java function to compute tax. +1 for static typing and avoid embedding types in variable names.