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People over-apply his patterns. Some patterns that are useful in niche edge cases suddenly become a ‘best practice standard’, sprayed anywhere and everywhere. M
by blowski 5y ago
People 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.