On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 2:45 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
> On 22/06/2013 19:29, Jim Mooney wrote: > >> On 22 June 2013 04:00, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> >> >> Speaking of Java, I get a kick out of this article and love to link to >>> it on >>> every possible opportunity: >>> >>> http://steve-yegge.blogspot.**com.au/2006/03/execution-in-** >>> kingdom-of-nouns.html<http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com.au/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html> >>> >> >> Funny. Speaking of Java, I saw a used book on design patterns, that >> wasn't too old, but all the examples were in Java. Why not just hit >> myself in the head with a brick? >> >> Except for a really old general book, all the recent books on design >> patterns, which I was curious about, are on specific languages - >> design patterns for Java (speak of the devil), Visual Basic, Tcl, even >> Android. But I couldn't fine One on Python. Is there a reason for >> this? Don't they play well with Python, or did I miss the book >> somehow? >> > > Loads of the design pattern stuff is written to help programmers get > around the straight jacket that languages can impose, whereas > implementating the same patterns in Python is often ludicrously easy. > http://norvig.com/design-patterns/ Read this for an insight into how design patterns change for dynamic languages .. Asokan Pichai "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull to not attack you because you are a vegetarian"
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