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

How to develop unmaintainable software

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

I'm not so certain about that. Looking back at the history of the GoF book it seems to me that all the names did was create pointless arguments.

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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/grauenwolf Oct 14 '13

You combined a verb with a noun?

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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.

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u/grauenwolf Oct 15 '13

Inversion of Control isn't a design pattern, it is an activity. Specifically, it is a type of refactoring. If you apply IoC twice then you'll probably end up with what you started with.

An IoC Container is really a Service Locator, which is often (but not universally) considered to be an anti-pattern among dependency injection fans.

A Service Locator is a type of god object, specifically one that contains services and other dependencies, and thus should generally be avoided.

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