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Tag: design smell

  • Code Generators: Bad, worse & ugly

    Code generators have been invented and forgotten at least four times in software history. They have an appeal to developers like the sun to Daedalus’ son. Let’s not be Icarus, let’s keep them generators at a distance and watch them carefully. Whenever a language, framework or paradigm forces developers to do the same thing over…