"Design patterns of 1972", by MJD

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Good read, thanks.

Oddly, enough, I only know MJD from his perl advocacy.
Last time I looked, perls oop was entirely built as a 'pattern'
(with only minor 'helpers' like bless, self and new). Wonder if
he's been a driver for some of perl6s new features?

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On 13/09/06, Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> wrote:

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

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Oddly, enough, I only know MJD from his perl advocacy.
Last time I looked, perls oop was entirely built as a 'pattern'
(with only minor 'helpers' like bless, self and new). Wonder if
he's been a driver for some of perl6s new features?

This is OT, but self and new are both adhoc. All you get is UNIVERSAL,
bless, and @ISA out of the box.

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On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 04:10:54AM +0900, Dick Davies wrote:

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