Why so serious?
I STARTED with a blog dedicated to programming some time in 2003, dabbled with other blogging projects, and now appear to have settled with the present incarnation. Looking back, it is strange to see how my blogging preference has shifted so much.
Although I still do a lot of programming, I have given up on writing about it. I feel that programmers, or those who write about the profession, are being too liberal about throwing acronyms, patterns, and what-nots around, and I do not want to be part of that.
Just yesterday, I came across a blog post about “a new Locator pattern”. Well, here was me thinking that the purpose of a pattern was to describe a distinct and recognised solution to a common programming problem. Let’s get this straight, you have ONE Locator pattern with VARIATIONS in implementation. Someone claiming “a new Locator pattern” is missing the point, surely. Imagine this, in the middle of a technical discussion, you suggest that a developer uses the Locator pattern. “Err, which one already?” Yep, that’s how ridiculous pattern abuse has become, all thanks to self-proclaimed programmer-blogger-gods!
And, this is why I prefer to post pictures. Like this one.
Eddy.
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Damn good point about patterns. People literally advertise on their resumes their use of patterns. It was just intended to be a way of having a common nomenclature for frequent solutions to problems… but now it sometimes feels like solutions in search of a problem. Or, more likely, a reflection of the fact that in the real world of programming there *is no* truly common problem (or else you could simply use off the shelf software for everything).
Comment by Joshua DeWald — Thursday, 6 May 2010 22:59 GMT #