Hey Chris, ever heard of Simpleton pattern? :-)

2009-10-07T22:08:35.178+11:00

Maybe they're not railing against the conceptu...

2009-10-07T06:15:33.966+11:00

Maybe they're not railing against the conceptual patterns, but the "code patterns", which are supposed library implementations of the GoF patterns.

The worst book for this I've seen is _Modern C++ Design_, which instigated an entire geneartion to use "patterns", meaning classes that implemented the patterns in a supposedly generic way.

Though those are just my thoughts. I don't thik people as smart as the ones you name would actually say that a common vocabulary is a bad thing, or at least localized vocabularies. After all, some of them are strong proponents of language specific idioms, and isn't an idiom just another word for pattern, i.e. a common way to use something observed multiple times?

Comments on Chris Mountford: Smart Programmers Who Don't Get Patterns

Hey Chris, ever heard of Simpleton pattern? :-)

Maybe they're not railing against the conceptu...