> The "Design Patterns" solution is to turn the programmer into a fancy macro processor
To be fair, it is far from the only source of motivation to see programmers as (or turn them into) a fancy macro processor. Maybe that's one reason why shops where discussion orients heavily on design patterns often also seem to be places where Management Theory X [0] is on display.
To be fair, it is far from the only source of motivation to see programmers as (or turn them into) a fancy macro processor. Maybe that's one reason why shops where discussion orients heavily on design patterns often also seem to be places where Management Theory X [0] is on display.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_X_and_Theory_Y