Design Patterns Are Snake Oil

When a programer masters his tools and domain expertise, he obtains the expertise any Design Pattern tries to describe. Design Patterns is a snake oil. Icing on the cake. Fluff. Wishful thinking. Slouch's drug. Idiot's placebo. And that's not all. Design Patterns is the opium of computing industry. From a addicted individual or company, it may have improved a code or helped a team by placebo effect. But on the whole, it hinders the propagation of quality languages. It stops advancements of language design. It reduces the awareness of real education needs like mastering mathematics and domain expertise. It is a faking spoon-feeding formula designed to retard the mundane and drug the smart. It curbs creativity. It is a plaque, a fashion phenomenon; a jargon-riding dimwit-pleasing epidemic. For the record, the “Gang of Four” mentioned in this thread who wrote the Design Patterns book are: Erich Gamma ↘ faaking ass one Richard Helm ↘ faaking ass two Ralph Johnson ↘ faaking ass too John Vlissides ↘ faaking ass also These people will be remembered as criminals in the computing history, along with Larry Wall and those faking jackasses who distributed their home work known as Unix. [criminals here is defined as those who bring damages to society, including hampering progress in a massive scale.]

A screenshot shows a bespectacled man beside a long programming rant attacking design patterns as snake oil, opium, placebo, and a creativity-killing epidemic. The joke is an exaggerated anti-design-pattern tirade that insults the Gang of Four and other influential programmers, making it useful as a reaction to overconfident technical hot takes, programming dogma, or needless abstraction. EN: A screenshot shows a bespectacled man beside a long programming rant attacking design patterns as snake oil, opium, placebo, and a creativity-killing epidemic. The joke is an exaggerated anti-design-pattern tirade that insults the Gang of Four and other influential programmers, making it useful as a reaction to overconfident technical hot takes, programming dogma, or needless abstraction.

• @gentoomemes / 7571 2023-11-25