"Design patterns of 1972", by MJD

In "Design patterns of 1972", Mark-Jason Dominus says:

Patterns are signs of weakness in programming languages.

When we identify and document one, that should not be the
end of the story. Rather, we should have the long-term
goal of trying to understand how to improve the language
so that the pattern becomes invisible or unnecessary.

Interesting read and quite relevant to Ruby and Rails...

  http://newbabe.pobox.com/~mjd/blog/2006/09/11/#design-patterns

-r

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