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Oof! I dealt with a SASL and CAS system that had much of its flow control built into XML strings. Yeah, you may not have to "compile" things, but you end up wit
by pfarrell 13y ago
Oof! I dealt with a SASL and CAS system that had much of its flow control built into XML strings. Yeah, you may not have to "compile" things, but you end up with a system where everything is a runtime exception. I believe this style of coding was referred to as "inner platform effect" by Martin Fowler.
Glad that I'm far from that project now.
- samograd 13y agoInner-platform effect: A system so customizable as to become a poor replica of the software development platform Source: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Software_Engineering/Architecture/Anti-Patterns http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Software_Engine...
- MaysonL 13y agoSort of a poor man's Greenspun's tenth rule… [see http://philip.greenspun.com/research/ http://philip.greenspun.com/research/]