Re: Database Design Patterns?

On Apr 2, 6:12 pm, Bob Badour <bbad...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Doug Morse wrote:

as an academic in both computer science and cognitive psychology, i
couldn't agree with you more re: the importance of a thorough training
on the fundamentals. and certainly "half-baked" recipies are of
little value, if not outright damaging.

that said, though, pattern recognition tied to appropriate actions is
without question one of the core aspects of expert functioning and
behavior. "patterns" books in any field that accurately capture and
represent how experts "organize their world" and "see things" and then
take action on what they see will always be of great value.

With all due respect, that's what the fundamentals teach.

Um, couldn't one teach the fundamentals through a vehicle
of using patterns?


The GoF style patterns are bath water not baby.

Mightn't that have more to do with the fact that that book
is organized around OOP, than with the idea of patterns
per se?

Coincidentally, we were just mentioning design patterns
over in comp.lang.functional like yesterday. Several authors
have observed that OOP design patterns sort of dissolve
in a functional language setting. For example:

http://norvig.com/design-patterns/

By the excellent Peter Norvig, author of the world's
longest palindrome, the hilarious Gettysburg Power Point
Presentation, and the essay "Teach Yourself Programming
in Ten Years." Not to mention some books.


Marshall

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