Published on: 2025-09-27 23:43:09
The Gang of Four got it wrong. Ruby's standard library has it wrong. Rails has it wrong. Is it still wrong if everyone is doing it? Yes. The Gang of Four book Design Patterns gives us common vocabulary to understand basic patterns in Object-oriented programming. It helps all of us use the same terms when discussing our software and prevents confusion. Sadly, this book seems to cause a whole hell of a lot of confusion. They say "prefer composition over inheritance." That's great, there's goo
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