Re: "I asked about dependency injection in C++ and people made fun of me"

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 8:32 AM, andy sipe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Doesn't this go both ways? Shouldn't everyone strive to be a bit
> more friendly. Just because someone has a longer tenure in the
> programming field doesn't mean they have a right to snub others.
> Hopefully they haven't stopped learning??? If I was short with
> everyone who had less experience than me I wouldn't get very far.
>

Yes, Andy, you are completely correct. I agree, the C++ guys
over-reacted and failed to "seek first to understand."

Nearly every human being does this.  We can either complain about it
(which makes us the passive victim) or rise above it.

I don't mean to imply that you are a passive victim.  My point is
simply that if you want to talk about something like DI with a
community that is hostile to it, you're choices are either:

1) Seek first to understand,
2) Stay out of the community,
3) Make a lot of enemies early

Of *COURSE* you should have a fourth option called "engage with the
community as a peer" - and it's clearly one that exists on pragprog
... but not everywhere.

So, again, my final advice: Seek first to under. $50 says that a
substantial portion of the mailing list will tell you about this cool
trick they know where you have the constructor take a pointer to a
baseclass object so that you can over-ride it for testing.  They just
don't call it DI ...


--heusser
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