...ommit truly introduced the block of code. The author of the commit was the inventor of that cool feature you were hunting its origin for (or the guilty party who introduced the bug); or The block of code did not exist in the file, but five identical copies of it existed in different files, all of ...

...an RPC protocol is a huge error according to the designer of HTTP 1.1 (and inventor of REST): http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/evaluation.htm#sec_6_5_2 share | improve this answer...

... additional information. Even Erich Gamma, one of the Singleton pattern's inventors, doubts this pattern nowadays: "I'm in favor of dropping Singleton. Its use is almost always a design smell" Further reading How is testing the registry pattern or singleton hard in PHP? What are the disadva...