January 28, 2005
[Design Patterns] Design Pattern Joke
If you’re looking for a good old fashioned geek chuckle and some food for thought in regards to over-engineering check out this post on SlashDot:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=33602&cid=3636102
Comment Highlights:
"programmers being so smart that they practically obfuscate the code with "good" design" -Evil Pete
"over-abstracting and over-design-pattern-ing is a real problem, even though those aren't real words" -JamieF
"you're wishing you'd abstracted just a little bit more at the outset.", "the boss is always going to ask for something that you didn't expect. twice." -spongman
"There are a number of differences between programming and software engineering. This has been one of them." -Pseudonym
"Too much of a good thing might not end up also being a good thing?!" -Arrgh
-erik
Posted by erikbianchi at 07:08 PM | Comments (280)