trying to learn to put random thoughts on here, as I do on twitter.
e.g. the tweet stream by two people on the question of are the original Design Patterns still useful 30 yrs later - one said Yes, one said No.
the arg for No was all of them are superceded by simple functional programming lines these days.
the arg for Yes is.... ?
(I'm for Yes, but won't share my reasons quite yet).
[attempt 1 to start a convo here instead of on Tw]
@totheralistair @tumbarumba I agree that many (not all) GoF design patterns can be expressed as a function.
I still find the nomenclature and intent really useful, even if the implementation differs.
(Also, “these days”? Isn’t LISP like 60 years old?)
@SamirTalwar @tumbarumba
I think as you and Kyle both said, it is about creating names for idioms, and knowing the idioms and having the names are both useful, not related to how many years ago they were named
