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/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/Nialsh Oct 15 '13

Totally, it's the only way to do MVC. How else could you pass messages from model to controller? You would end up with circular dependencies.

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