On Feb 18, 2010, at 4:49 PM, Nick Rudnick wrote:
Why does the opposite work well for computing science?
Does it? I remember a peer trying to convince me to use "the factory pattern" in a language that supports functors. I told him I would do my task my way, and he could change it later if he wanted. He told me an hour later he tried a trivial implementation, and found that the source was twice as long as my REAL implementation, split across multiple files in an unattractive way, all while losing conceptual clarity. He immediately switched to using functors too. He didn't even know he wanted a functor, because the name "factory" clouded his interpretation.
Software development is full of people inventing creative new ways to use the wrong tool for the job.
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