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If you say you are iterating through a collection using a while loop and not an iterator, then you are confusing people by using the wrong word for things. Des
by dwaite 6y ago
If you say you are iterating through a collection using a while loop and not an iterator, then you are confusing people by using the wrong word for things.
Design patterns is a formalism behind common patterns in software, and part of that formalism is that they are named.
Obviously you don't need all that formalism every time you talk about patterns, the same way you don't talk about the laws of arithmetic every time you do math.
- neonological 6y agoExactly math doesn’t call informal but repeatable techniques “design patterns,” and publish a book about it. why should programmers make a misguided claim that these same techniques are also formal and give it a pretentious name. Design patterns is a unique phenomenon in programming. No other field is pretentious enough to refer to domain specific vocabulary as design patterns.