Sorry, I don't want to drag this out if people think it's getting silly, but for the sake of discussion...
From the preface to Design Patterns: "It's a book of design patterns that describes simple and elegant solutions to specific problems in object-oriented software." Not sure if I already said this, but for the record, I think Design Patterns is a great book and Actionscript is a very decent language. Ditto on "Refactoring." That's a good book. Austin Haas Pet Tomato, Inc. http://www.pettomato.com Martin Wood wrote: > I think one of the main forces behind design patterns is communication, > they allow us to talk about software design using a common language > which represents often found architectural features (errm, patterns :) > > every programming language will have patterns, be it functional, OO, > procedural, whatever. > > maybe some patterns (and anti-patterns) describe ways in which we deal > with flaws (or features, depends on your point of view), but i think its > slightly disingenuous to say that patterns are bandages for bad > languages. (bad nicolas, bad.. :) > > i think they have been discussed a lot more in OO languages because most > large scale software development has been conducted within that realm > for the past so many years. > > Im sure we will start to see patterns relating to AOP in the near future > as that becomes a more common part of development. > > anyway, back to the books, at the moment im also enjoying > > Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code > By Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts > > and joining the two topics together : > > Refactoring to Patterns > By Joshua Kerievsky > > martin > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
