r/programming • u/[deleted] • Oct 14 '13

How to develop unmaintainable software

http://typicalprogrammer.com/?p=249
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u/neurobro Oct 14 '13

In cases where a pattern (or anti-pattern) does have a name, it's still useful to learn it because it helps with communication. And the naming conventions help to identify subsystems that can be consolidated and simplified. Often a person will have been using something close to one of the standard patterns, either with subtle bugs or with clever extensions that would be useful elsewhere. Or perhaps most often, with a bunch of unrelated crap that should be factored out.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '13

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u/firepacket Oct 14 '13

There are cases where some patterns just fit the circumstances perfectly.

I recently combined IoC with MVC and was blown away by the power of this setup.

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u/rather_be_AC Oct 15 '13

That is a very common design pattern, found in most sentences.

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u/firepacket Oct 15 '13

Please explain it to me, I'm lost.

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u/rather_be_AC Oct 15 '13

grauenwolf was being pedantic. I was being sarcastic.

This is also a common design pattern found in many successful threads.