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From: Panu on 11 Mar 2010 22:40 Casey Hawthorne wrote: > Interesting comment on this blog by Shae: > http://codebetter.com/blogs/matthew.podwysocki/archive/2009/03/09/which-is-more-beautiful-architecture-fp-or-oop.aspx > Shae re: Which Is More Beautiful Architecture - FP or OOP? > > "Perhaps a design pattern describes an impedance mismatch between > reality and a particular programming language?" That's on target I think. There are "forces" that force you choose a particular solution. (Impedance is about forces, right?) What is possible in a given programming language, is one of those forces. But so is what is possible in programming, in general, regardless of the language. A good example of the effect of the language is the proverbial Singleton pattern. In Smalltalk every class is an object just like any other. So it is naturally a "Singleton". For a Smalltalker the pattern Singleton is somewhat confusing, like trying to talk to a fish about the great invention called water. -Panu Viljamaa |