Re: What's a pattern?

From:
Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 6 Aug 2009 23:57:31 +0100
Message-ID:
<alpine.DEB.1.10.0908062357060.18644@urchin.earth.li>
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Bill McCleary wrote:

Wojtek wrote:

Jan Paulsen wrote :

what you're looking at is an emerging pattern. For me, a "pattern" (in the
academic sense) would need to undergo so analysis for generalisation and
extracting what's important and not much more.


Well, it is cross-language also. The whole thing together uses:
Java
SQL
XML
JavaScript
AJAX
JSP
DHTML
CSS


What's missing from this list, that would help a lot with this kind of code
repetition?

Ah, yes, Lisp, or at least some language with first-class functions...


Rubbish - you could do this all in shell script. It's probably a
one-liner! :)

tom

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