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masklinn on Feb 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dependency Injection is dangerous for your career

> This is not at all the definition of Dependency Injection.

Re-read fleitz message. He never stated what he believed DI to be but what he believes DI to be used for.

> I also think it's wrong to conflate DI with XML.

Which, again, is not what he said at all.

msmith on Feb 10, 2011 [–]

To be honest, I didn't really understand what he was trying to say, but I am certain that the first two problems he mentions are not what DI is intended to solve.

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