Hello !
I'm happy to announce a new publication, to appear in the JUCS journal,
volume 15 (next issue). The details of the paper are given below:
Title: REVISITING THE VISITOR: THE JUST DO IT PATTERN
Author: Didier Verna
Abstract:
While software design patterns are a generally useful concept, they are
often (and mistakenly) seen as ready-made universal recipes for solving
common problems. In a way, the danger is that programmers stop thinking
about their actual problem, and start looking for pre-cooked solutions
in some design pattern book instead. What people usually forget about
design patterns is that the underlying programming language plays a
major role in the exact shape such or such pattern will have on the
surface. The purpose of this paper is twofold: we show why design
pattern expression is intimately linked to the expressiveness of the
programming language in use, and we also demonstrate how a blind
application of them can in fact lead to very poorly designed code.
--
Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated.
Scientific site: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier
Music (Jazz) site: http://www.didierverna.com
EPITA/LRDE, 14-16 rue Voltaire, 94276 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
Tel. +33 (0)1 44 08 01 85 Fax. +33 (0)1 53 14 59 22
