From: bpfurtado <bpfurtado@...>
Date: 2007-09-29T08:55:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Confession: I never learned CS

On Sep 27, 7:29 pm, MenTaLguY <men...@rydia.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:31:47 +0900, "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denat...@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.

You couldn't be more wrong, being statically typed does not interfere
in the runtime messages exchange between your objects.

Design Pattern or better saying Object Oriented Modeling is just about
how to better model the comunications of your objects in order to get
more *reusable* and *maintainable* code.

Those OO techniques are highly valid for Java, C++, Ruby or Python
world.

>
> 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