Mon Jan 28 14:50:51 HKT 2008 From /weblog/design/pattern
criticism
Suggest use to take a fresh look of original "pattern language" - http://perl.plover.com/yak/design/ , in his opinions, it is more about separate design to difference groups than create reusable design.
Some more... http://www.relevancellc.com[..]007/5/17/design-patterns-are-code-smells http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000899.html
Some say pattern should be language feature ... http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000308.html
Closely related, there are no golden rules and silver bullet, Design Pattern can help us in some design problem and provide some design suggestion. However, we need to know what it good for and bad for
http://jchyip.blogspot.com/2008/01/gefn.html
http://jchyip.blogspot.com[..]est-practice-vs-pattern-vs-standard.html
http://jchyip.blogspot.com[..]ndard-approach-does-not-necessarily.html
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