Re: naming convention
On 10/19/2011 9:53 PM, Lew wrote:
On Wednesday, October 19, 2011 4:09:24 PM UTC-7, markspace wrote:
On 10/19/2011 3:19 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
There are basically two types: read only and read-modify.
It should be a design pattern.
I can't think of any design patterns for "read a bunch a files."
However, what you're doing, with some additions or modifications, sounds
suspiciously similar to map-reduce. You might want to take a look at
that to see if your use model could be adapted to fit the map reduce
pattern.
It's not officially a design pattern, but it comes up often enough where
I think perhaps it should be, at least for some specialized forms of
processing data.
<http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.2/mapred_tutorial.html>
What makes something "officially" a design pattern? Is there a Design Pattern Agency that issues official a DPA Seal of Approval?
If it's a pattern, and it is at the design level, isn't it perforce a design pattern, "officially" or not notwithstanding?
The criteria must be whether the name and semantics are widely
agreed on.
Arne
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