Concrete is better than abstract for learning. Julian
On 03/12/2012, at 12:23 AM, John Nilsson <j...@milsson.nu> wrote: > Yes. > > Hence you write a pattern language and spare people the agony of reading the > programs it was discovered in. > > Which was precisely my point. Maybe this is is why we dont read programs and > why we instead have pattern literature as our primary means of communicating > interesting design ideas. > > BR > John > > Den 2 dec 2012 14:18 skrev "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <p...@informatimago.com>: > John Nilsson <j...@milsson.nu> writes: > > > Isn't the pattern language literature exactly that? An effort to > > typeset and edit interesting design artifacts. > > Unless you're programming in lisp(*), reading a program written with > patterns is like looking at the wave form of "Hello world!" said aloud. > > > (*) See: > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/ee09f8475bc7b2a0 > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.programming/msg/9e7b8aaec1794126 > > -- > __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ > A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}. > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
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