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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] don't shoot me
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:50:59 +0200
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> I don't think it has much to do with XML, but "design patterns"
> are a genuine advancement in the field of software engineering,
> applicable only with support from object-oriented languages,
> in the case of C++ using templates to implement the patterns.

well i appreciate its goals, but it does seem to have run off the rails.
i see this slavish application of this lunatic philosophy and well, i
can't say i like it.

programming is an art, it's a long way from being a science.