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Re: How is this "pattern" called?

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Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>> With the amount of noise over patterns though, you would think
>> that many people need the patterns. For me, supporting an in-house
>> application, there is no or little need.
>
> Or you have not realized the need.


Or both of you are looking at it from the wrong perspective.

I would bet that both of you use "patterns" in the larger, non-buzzwordy 
sense, that is, you recognize the shape of structures in your model and can 
exploit common idioms for common shapes. Both of you appear to be competent 
programmers from what this newsgroup shows, and programmers become competent 
only if they have that skill.

The argument is over "patterns" in the GoF sense, a highly bureaucratized, 
overly-verbose and religiously canonical set of labels and formats to describe 
them. But even amidst all the sturm und drang over the latter kind of 
patterns, they provide value in a common terminology and informal use. So when 
we discuss Visitor or Singleton, we all know what we mean. ("We" being 
competent programmers. One occasionally sees posters here who are less 
knowledgeable.)

I favor having a library of common pattern labels to facilitate both 
communication and program design. No one should think that the list in 
GoF-land is exhaustive, and certainly not mandatory. Just because you haven't 
used one of the patterns from the Official List doesn't mean you don't need 
patterns, or don't use them.

The point of the Official List is to identify some (only some!) of the most 
common patterns and get us used to thinking in terms of patterns, not to be 
set upon an altar and have thurifers waved at them.

-- 
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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Re: How is this "pattern" called? Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-05-18 10:03 -0600
  Re: How is this "pattern" called? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-18 10:50 -0700
    Re: How is this "pattern" called? markspace <-@.> - 2012-05-18 12:20 -0700
      Re: How is this "pattern" called? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-18 14:13 -0700
        Re: How is this "pattern" called? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-05-18 14:35 -0700
          Re: How is this "pattern" called? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-18 15:29 -0700
            Re: How is this "pattern" called? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-05-19 22:38 -0400
              Re: How is this "pattern" called? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-05-20 11:34 -0700
                Re: How is this "pattern" called? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-05-20 14:59 -0400
                Re: How is this "pattern" called? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-05-20 12:03 -0700
                Re: How is this "pattern" called? markspace <-@.> - 2012-05-20 13:19 -0700
                Re: How is this "pattern" called? Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-30 14:32 +0200
                Re: How is this "pattern" called? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-06-02 09:25 -0700
              Re: How is this "pattern" called? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-20 20:40 -0700
                Re: How is this "pattern" called? Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-30 14:33 +0200
          Re: How is this "pattern" called? Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-30 14:32 +0200
        Re: How is this "pattern" called? markspace <-@.> - 2012-05-18 15:28 -0700
        Re: How is this "pattern" called? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-05-19 22:37 -0400
          Re: How is this "pattern" called? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-20 20:43 -0700
            Re: How is this "pattern" called? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-05-21 00:09 -0700
              Re: How is this "pattern" called? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-21 10:04 -0700
            Re: How is this "pattern" called? Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-30 23:58 +0200
    Re: How is this "pattern" called? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-05-19 22:33 -0400
      Re: How is this "pattern" called? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-20 20:44 -0700
        Re: How is this "pattern" called? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-05-21 00:11 -0700

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