I can give an anti-example of a table-driven system, although I am going to come right out and say that the table-driven aspect of this system has nothing to do with why it was such a problem. In reality, the project suffered from Conway’s Law: Its architecture was driven by the way in which management divided up the work of designing and implementing the system.

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/02/mouse-trap.html

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