Monday, January 15, 2007
A holiday again?
Wlofie asked if I could give him a ride to the bank and the the post office (he needed a stamp to send in a rebate claim). No problem. We head out and arrive a few minutes later at the bank.
You know, these holidays have a way of sneaking up on us.
No bank. No post office.
But hey, for civil rights, that's fine by me.
Some more musings on programming, given the recent spate of entries on the topic
Patterns are signs of weakness in programming languages.
When we identify and document one, that should not be the end of the story. Rather, we should have the long-term goal of trying to understand how to improve the language so that the pattern becomes invisible or unnecessary.
While I've heard of the Gang of Four and their book, Design Patterns, I've never quite understood all the hoopla over it—the whole concept seemed pretty silly, or too obvious, to warrant a whole book on the subject. And it seems like I'm not the only one to think that as well, and I agree with the author, design patterns are silly.
