The Old Joel on Software Forum: Part 3 (of 5) - Design Patterns Implementaion

Design Patterns Implementaion

just a thought,
do design patterns means the need of a OO paradigm when it comes to implementation or can it be done in either a functional paradigm or imperative one as well?

eddy
Saturday, January 10, 2004

depends on the pattern. Some require OO some don't.

Tom Vu
Saturday, January 10, 2004

For more info on this topic, check out Lambda the Ultimate, the programming language weblog: http://www.google.com/custom?sitesearch=lambda.weblogs.com&q=design+patterns

A quote from the first hit:
Explains with examples why many OO patterns are invisible or builtin when you use dynamic languages (Lisp, Dylan).

Dan Shappir
Saturday, January 10, 2004

no mention of deisgn patterns using a imperative paradigm?

eddy
Saturday, January 10, 2004

"no mention of deisgn patterns using a imperative paradigm? "

Oh there is plenty of mention with the ivory tower academians who sit around and pontificate what to name this stuff all day long.

...the rest of us are actually implementing it, but not too terribly concerned about foisting fancy sounding names on it.

Bah
Saturday, January 10, 2004