General talk about software patterns

["Sriram Gopalan" <Sriram.Gopalan AT agile.com>]

I would concur. Patterns like Facade, for example, are applicable across many 
different types of systems. Adapter too. You might not use the exact
same implementation given in many of these books, but the concepts are still 
valid. Hope that helps.

- Sriram Gopalan

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Subject: Re: [patterns-discussion] Using Design Patterns without dynamic
memoryallocation




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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