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> any article that references Fowler should be looked at with just a little bit of suspicion. Not hating the guy but he's blown quite a bit of hot air in his ti
by copperx 5y ago
> any article that references Fowler should be looked at with just a little bit of suspicion. Not hating the guy but he's blown quite a bit of hot air in his time.
I've just started reading some Fowler stuff. What hot air are you referring to? I would like to keep that in mind.
- blowski 5y agoPeople over-apply his patterns. Some patterns that are useful in niche edge cases suddenly become a ‘best practice standard’, sprayed anywhere and everywhere. My rule of thumb is that you should only use his patterns if you could afford to hire him to code it for you.
- tunesmith 5y agoOne of those books has a rule buried in the middle somewhere that I was was in 60-point text on the first page of chapter one. I've taken to calling it Rule Zero: Don't implement a pattern unless it actually solves a problem.
- blowski 5y agoExactly. The problem is not Martin Fowler himself, but those who pick up his books and ignore those warnings.