Posted 14 November 2012 - 08:13 AM
This one is also worth reading:
http://tech.puredanger.com/2007/07/03/pattern-hate-singleton/Cool quote:
First, it is important to separate the “need for one of something in my system” from the “singleton pattern”. It’s perfectly reasonable to want one of something but to avoid using the singleton pattern. In other words, the problem is in the pattern, not in the goal.
It appears that the gentleman thought C++ was extremely difficult and he was overjoyed that the machine was absorbing it; he understood that good C++ is difficult but the best C++ is well-nigh unintelligible.