Re: What's a pattern?
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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