On 06/08/2012 01:22, Steven D'Aprano wrote: [snipped to death]
In my not-so-humble opinion, the popularity of Design Patterns has a lot to do with the fact that they are so abstract and jargon-ridden that they have become a badge of membership into an elite. Shorn of their excessive abstractness, they're not very special. People were writing helper functions to assemble complex data long before the Builder pattern was named, and a Facade is just an interface layer.
Design patterns being abstract and jargon ridden puts them alongside many other aspects of ICT, CS, call it what you like. Especially beloved by consultants as it means they can talk crap for hours and charge a fortune for it.
-- Cheers. Mark Lawrence. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
