From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2007-09-28T07:29:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Confession: I never learned CS

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:31:47 +0900, "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:
> Most of the GOF book deals with the issues raised by statically
> typed oo languages, and aren't as portable as one might think.

I'd submit the issues have more to do with the lack of "nice"
higher-order functions than they do with object orientation or
static typing.

For instance: the Visitor pattern suddenly becomes trivial when
you have HoFs for traversal (Enumerable#each, anyone?).

-mental