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The Dangers of Hammers (or, Why SRP Isn’t Dangerous)
Friday, November 20, 2009 9:28 PM

If you haven’t noticed, David Cooksey and I are having a bit of a back-and-forth about the Single Responsibility Principle and its use (or misuse) in software development. And I’m obviously not here to talk about the dangers of hammers. But as David Cooksey has come up with another example of how SRP (the Single Responsibility Principle) is dangerous when completely... Read More...

by drohrer | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Cooking School (Architecture and Lifecycle), SOLID, General Software Development, Refactoring

In response to "The Dangers of Single Responsibility in Programming"
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:55 PM

David Cooksey writes an interesting article titled " The Dangers of Single Responsibility in Programming " in which he proposes that there is a certain level of granularity below which SRP is not appropriate. Although I understand where he's coming from, I tend to disagree with his conclusion, and I think it's because his hypothetical programmer didn't actually... Read More...

by drohrer | 11 comment(s)

Filed under: SOLID, General Software Development, C#, .NET, Refactoring