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Many, but not all, and the idea that nonreified patterns indicate a flawed language is pernicious. Gabriel's book talks about this.
by mbrock 10y ago
Many, but not all, and the idea that nonreified patterns indicate a flawed language is pernicious. Gabriel's book talks about this.
- eru 10y agoYes. We can go further: ability to reify patterns can be seen as a synonym as ability to abstract. Funny enough, Java at least originally deliberate tried to limit people's ability to abstract common patterns in the name of `readability by average programmers'. At least that's the folklore.