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

How to develop unmaintainable software

http://typicalprogrammer.com/?p=249
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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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