General talk about software patterns

[Linda Rising <risingl1 AT cox.net>]

Linda Rising wrote:

> Hi Ralph,
>
> Just my opinion follows, but I think that somehow a lot of folks got the
> wrong idea about patterns because the GoF book (love all those authors!)
> just included examples in C++ and Smalltalk.
>
> Some of those folks (who got the wrong idea) were in the development
> community I knew best -- large, safety-critical, real-time, embedded, 
> systems.
> Those folks took one look at the GoF book and said, "Nothing in here 
> for me!"
> and dismissed it out of hand. This was unfortunate.
>
> A design pattern has nothing to do with dynamic memory allocation. Sure,
> many examples or implementations show this, but, for example, you can use
> a Mediator in FORTRAN!!
>
> Don't give up on design patterns, Ralph! They're an attempt on the 
> part of
> well-meaning designers to share the best they know. We can all benefit 
> regardless
> of our particular environment.
>
>
>
>
> Linda
>
>
>
> Ralph Malph wrote:
>
> > Hello all, looking at archives I'm not sure how
> > "alive" this list is, but someone out there might be
> > listening.
> >
> > I'm interested in people's opinions as to whether
> > design patterns would be useful if you could not
> > dynamically allocate memory. 
> > I am new to patterns and find them quite interesting. I am 
> > considering putting in some effort to comprehend
> > them, but my projects at work include embedded
> > safety-critical real-time systems, and one of the
> > things that we do not use is dynamic memory
> > allocation.
> >
> > If anyone has an opinion as to whether I should delve
> > into patterns for this type of software (i.e. you have
> > considered doing them and/or done them in similar
> > systems before) I'd be interested to hear it.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
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