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<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: Analysis and specification - the dirty words of mud development? </LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: J C Lawrence <<A HREF="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:38:04 -0700</LI>
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On Tue, 23 Jun 1998 17:26:02 -0700 (PDT)
Adam Wiggins<adam#angel,com> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, J C Lawrence wrote:
>> Niklas Elmqvist<d97elm#dtek,chalmers.se wrote:
>>> Another must-buy for O-O design zealots is "Design Patterns
>>> Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" written by Gamma,
>>> Vlissides, Johnson and Helm (incidentially, these four are called
>>> Gang of Four or GoF for short).
>> An absolute must-have. Utterly wonderful, and amazingly humbling.
>> Don't expect to understand it on the first reading. The authors
>> didn't claim to understand it as they wrote it (see the preface).
> I read this about a year ago on the recommend of a friend. The
> thing I found the most interesting about it was that much (maybe
> even most) of the stuff that was in there was things I had come up
> with on my own, just not nearly so elegantly, and I had never
> thought of them as being seperate "paterns", just things I thought
> up to solve a specific problem.
My first take on it was slightly similar: "Damn! Every single really
neat or clever thing I ever thought of as a programmer has been put
down here, named, catalogued, diagramed, analysed, and pinned out like
a bug on a board!" I found it humbling.
> So though someone who has been doing OO programming for a while will
> probably not learn anything completely new, it does wonders to
> solidify and clarify the concepts that you've probably already been
> using for a while, not to mention give you some good names by which
> to call them.
I find its main value in two areas: as a catalogue of possible
approaches ("patterns") which I use much like a cookbook in picking
the recipe of choice, and as brain-fart-breaker used when I'm just not
getting anywhere trying to mangle a concept into workability.
--
J C Lawrence Internet: claw#null,net
(Contractor) Internet: coder#ibm,net
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01138" HREF="msg01138.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Analysis and specification - the dirty words o</A></strong>,
s001gmu <a href="mailto:s001gmu#nova,wright.edu">s001gmu#nova,wright.edu</a>, Fri 19 Jun 1998, 15:04 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01222" HREF="msg01222.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Analysis and specification - the dirty words o</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Fri 26 Jun 1998, 21:30 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01183" HREF="msg01183.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Analysis and specification - the dirty words of mud development?</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Tue 23 Jun 1998, 23:55 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01184" HREF="msg01184.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Analysis and specification - the dirty words of mud development?</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:adam#angel,com">adam#angel,com</a>, Wed 24 Jun 1998, 00:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01193" HREF="msg01193.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Analysis and specification - the dirty words of mud development?</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 24 Jun 1998, 18:38 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01050" HREF="msg01050.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Analysis and specification</A></strong>,
Shawn Halpenny <a href="mailto:malachai#iname,com">malachai#iname,com</a>, Mon 15 Jun 1998, 19:14 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01066" HREF="msg01066.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Analysis and specification</A></strong>,
Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Tue 16 Jun 1998, 05:48 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01170" HREF="msg01170.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Analysis and specification - the dirty words of mud development?</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Mon 22 Jun 1998, 23:46 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01017" HREF="msg01017.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Analysis and specification - the dirty words of mud development?</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Sat 13 Jun 1998, 07:11 GMT
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