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But many programmers use it as a how-to guide. I've had people tell me "but that's how it's done in GOF", even if the design pattern was a poor fit for the prob
by rolisz 5y ago
But many programmers use it as a how-to guide. I've had people tell me "but that's how it's done in GOF", even if the design pattern was a poor fit for the problem at hand, just because there was some superficial resemblance to one of the examples in the book.
- dopidopHN 5y agoI remember trying really hard to find case where I could use a pattern in my code as a junior dev.
- ghosty141 5y agobut this is not the fault of the book but of bad teaching.
- jcelerier 5y agoAsk them to re read chap.1 or 2 where it says black-on-white that this is not a set of mandatory rules. (Same for Clean Code by the way which is often taken as gospel against the wishes of its own author!)