alt Hacker NewsOOP and GoF are not the same thing - conflating the two has been the biggest mistake everyone has made (detractors and proponents alike)
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spkm • yesterday at 11:34 PM
I know, but they didn't.
OOP and GoF are not the same thing - conflating the two has been the biggest mistake everyone has made (detractors and proponents alike)
I know, but they didn't.
And there's nothing "wrong" with the GoF Patterns per-se. The issue was always people applying them blindly without understanding why (or more to the point, "if") they were needed. Once writing code filled with patterns became "the thing you do"... all bets were off. :-(