Anything that encourages ideological movements among ignorant people is bad, and design patterns do just that, from what I've seen. I've seen grown men spend h

Anything that encourages ideological movements among ignorant people is bad, and design patterns do just that, from what I've seen. I've seen grown men spend hours and hours and hours talking about AbstractFactory patterns. I've seen, to a degree, that your ability to discuss the implementation of AbstractFactories can influence your reputation more than the software that actually gets created.