On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Paul Johnson wrote: > For that matter, how much do people who espouse patterns conciously > use them? Maybe expert, or even good programmers are not the target > audience.
I espouse them and use them. The target audience is all programmers, as one of their aims is to provide a common language. If a junior programmer knows what a command pattern looks like, a team leader can hand out a work packet with just enough of a description to get the job done the right way. The junior programmer doesn't need to know that the team leader is using command patterns to separate M from C in MVC, just that he's been asked for a command. > And how many people have actually read that book all the way through? > And of those, how many can remember the names of half the patterns? I did. Some of the patterns are more useful than others, and I remember the commonly used patterns more easily. However, the book's on my desk, and I can flick to the inside cover whenever I think there's an applicable pattern, but I've forgotten its name. > And anyway, in my day "pattern" was spelt "recipe" :-) Sort of. Patterns are small ideas. They work well in combination. Many recipes are larger, and solve whole problems. -- Nigel Wetters, Senior Programmer, Development Group Rivals Digital Media Ltd, 151 Freston Road, London W10 6TH Tel. 020 8962 1346 (direct line), Fax. 020 8962 1311 http://www.rivalsdm.com/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
