Yes.

Hence you write a pattern language and spare people the agony of reading
the programs it was discovered in.

Which was precisely my point. Maybe this is is why we dont read programs
and why we instead have pattern literature as our primary means of
communicating interesting design ideas.

BR
John
Den 2 dec 2012 14:18 skrev "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <[email protected]>:

> John Nilsson <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Isn't the pattern language literature exactly that? An effort to
> > typeset and edit interesting design artifacts.
>
> Unless you're programming in lisp(*), reading a program written with
> patterns is like looking at the wave form of "Hello world!" said aloud.
>
>
> (*) See:
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/ee09f8475bc7b2a0
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.programming/msg/9e7b8aaec1794126
>
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