This sounds like the book I've been looking for, you don't have an ISBN
for it do you?
Pete
On Thursday, August 16, 2001, at 12:58 AM, Mike Nardell wrote:
> I would like to join in on this thread; in particular I would like to
> know
> if anyone has thought about using the patterns approach in Director. The
> intent of contributors to this thread seems consistent with the work of
> Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides (affectionally known as the Gang of
> Four.) In their book _Design Patterns_ (that can correctly be deemed
> seminal) they set out to catalog some of the patterns of object use that
> people have been successfully in software development. The patterns that
> they cataloged were those that promoted object reuse.
>
> I immediatly liked _Design Patterns_, because of the emphasis on how
> objects
> collaborate. When I first encountered OOP, collaboration was the
> biggest of
> mysteries. The often sited benefit of OOP is code reuse, however it is
> pretty hard to craft a object class that really is reusable. And it is
> very
> easy to write Object Oriented code that is as messy or messier than
> procedural stuff!
>
> Since their book was published (1995?) others have written similar
> books,
> and extended the idea. In fact, I first encountered the idea while I was
> learning Java. Several authors have take the 23 patterns presented by
> the
> GoF (Gang of Four) and reworked the examples into Java (_Design
> Patterns_
> features example code written in C++ and Smalltalk.)
>
> Along these lines, I have been interested in seeing a collection of
> patterns
> for Lingo OOP. I feel that some (but not all) of the patterns
> documented in
> _Design Patterns_ would be useful to a wide audience of Lingo
> Programmers.
> And I think that there are probably some patterns that are fairly
> unique to
> Lingo. Anyway, I posting this email to reinforce and support the ideas
> that
> have been carried on this thread so far. I guess you could say that the
> catalog of patterns is a "documentation pattern" that the OOP
> programmers in
> Lingo could reuse.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Nardell
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