On Wednesday, 3 October 2012 at 08:17:49 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
If we were to study software now in the way Richard Helm, Erich
Gamma et
al. did in the early 1990s would we find Proxy, Façade,
Builder, etc. of
course we would since the feedback loop of people knowing about
them
causes them to use them. So we now have a self-fulfilling
prophesy, and
a design loop it is impossible to escape from.
So, you are saying that these examples are exhibiting the same
problems because they are based on the same design?
I don't see how that would invalidate the results. That is, I
don't see the relevance here.
