Hi! On Thu Aug 28, 2003 at 01:54:44AM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 05:08:08AM +0200, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > > Go and read "Design Patterns: Elements Of Reusable Object-Oriented > > Software"[1]. It's THE book for developers who think like you. He, I was > > in your group, but after reading this book I was enlightened ;-) > > I have it on my shelf and have used it from time to time. Good book. But > it contains a lot of examples of exactly what I'm talking about. "Okay, > so you want the interface to this class to be defined by this other > class, which...." Argh. > > I hope you didn't mention that book to make a point about reusable code, > because it doesn't present any reusable code. "Patterns" yes. "Reusable > code" no.
Well than I suggest to read the Preface: A word of warning and encouragement: Don't worry if you don't understand this book completely on the first reading. We didn't understand it all on the first writing! ;-) No, you're right. It needs a lot of practise and nitty-gritty knowledge of C++ to apply patterns. But I have another reading suggestion: John Vlissides "Pattern Hatching: Design Patterns Applied". He's one of the GoF and wrote this book as successor to the PatternBook. Many examples, good style, fun reading ... So long Thomas PS: No, I don't work for AW ;-) -- .''`. Obviously we do not want to leave zombies around. - W. R. Stevens : :' : Thomas Krennwallner <djmaecki at ull dot at> `. `'` 1024D/67A1DA7B 9484 D99D 2E1E 4E02 5446 DAD9 FF58 4E59 67A1 DA7B `- http://bigfish.ull.at/~djmaecki/
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