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Re: naming convention

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On 10/19/2011 6:53 PM, Lew wrote:


> What makes something "officially" a design pattern?


Consensus?  Honestly I don't know.  I've never seen map-reduce called a 
"pattern" though so I'm being conservative in my terminology.  *I* don't 
know that it's a pattern, so I don't want to suggest that it is.


> If it's a pattern, and it is at the design level, isn't it perforce a
> design pattern, "officially" or not notwithstanding?


I don't think that calling everything that occurs frequently in 
programing a "pattern" is useful terminology.  For the term "pattern" to 
have meaning besides "thing" it has to have some sort of restricted or 
qualified domain.  And I haven't see a definition of pattern, besides 
what GOF put in their book.  So for now, I think it's not, until there's 
some sort of consensus about what to call these things.

And I do think that map-reduce deserves some sort of special 
nomenclature, but whether "pattern" is the best word I don't know. 
What's the difference between a pattern, an algorithm, and a system?  I 
don't rightly know.  Thinking about now just off the top of my head, the 
GOF design patterns were all fairly small in their scope, and map-reduce 
is a rather large system in its scope and use.

Anyway, for now map-reduce is special enough to have its own name: 
map-reduce.

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