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Yeah the most confusing thing to me is how the hell code that bad ever got so big. It’s literally my go-to example of why the MVC design pattern is so good for
by fhdsgbbcaA 2y ago
Yeah the most confusing thing to me is how the hell code that bad ever got so big.
It’s literally my go-to example of why the MVC design pattern is so good for web development. There is basically no view/controller separation - you can change core behavior of the backend in a template.
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