Software patterns Was: LISP is dead now ! ! !

From: Pascal Bourguignon (spam_at_mouse-potato.com)
Date: 10/09/04 

Date: 09 Oct 2004 23:10:08 +0200

Pascal Costanza <costanza@web.de> writes:
> Greg Menke wrote:
>
> > I'm not dismissing software design patterns simply because of
> > singletons, but because all signs point to it being one more
> > great-sounding idea that ends up being of the most benefit to
> > consultants who use it to generate acronyms & terminology to make
> > their presentations look good.
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> > Not that I think software patterns are
> > useless, but I get the impression that the cost of using them doesn't
> > come with a big enough payoff to make it worth the trouble. On the
> > plus side, each new software fad seems to reach a smaller and smaller
> > audience, so thats OK.
>
> The Design Patterns book has a subtext that strongly suggests that
> patterns must be complex, must use some kind of UML notation and must
> have something to do with OOP. Nothing of this is true. Here is an
> example of a set of patterns that are quite different:
> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SimplyUnderstoodCode (written by Richard
> Gabriel specifically to show that there is more to patterns than
> people usually think).

Macros ARE software patterns.

But some software patterns are less localized than macros. It's
worthwhile to document them. 

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
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