Locked. This question and its answers are locked because the question is off-topic but has historical significance. It is not currently accepting new answers or interactions. anti-pattern : there must be at least two key elements present to formally distinguish an actual anti-pattern from a simple bad habit, bad practice, or bad idea: Some repeated … Read more
So we have this huge (is 11000 lines huge?) mainmodule.cpp source file in our project and every time I have to touch it I cringe. As this file is so central and large, it keeps accumulating more and more code and I can’t think of a good way to make it actually start to shrink. … Read more
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I am studying patterns and anti-patterns. I have a clear idea about patterns, but I don’t get anti-patterns. Definitions from the web and Wikipedia confuse me a lot. Can anybody explain to me in simple words what an anti-pattern is? What is the purpose? What do they do? Is it a bad thing or good … Read more
