"John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Duncan Booth wrote: >> "John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > You are saying that you think that George thinks that they are >> > teaching efficient coding methods in OO classes?? >> > >> No, but I hope they teach how to recognise patterns, and I imagine >> they also teach something about refactoring to remove switches or >> long if/elif chains. (My imagination may not, of course, bear any >> resemblance to real life.) > > My point is that efficent coding methods, recognition of patterns and > refactoring are *general* comp sci concepts, they are not special to > OO. Why do you hope / imagine such things about OO classes? >
Both things are applicable outside OO, but the OO community is where they evolved. The concept of design patterns was popularized by the Gang of Four in "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software", and I believe that the concept of refactoring also grew out of the OO community. According to Wikipedia, which is occasionally not far wrong: > The first known use of the term "refactoring" in the published > literature was in the article, Refactoring: An Aid in Designing > Application Frameworks and Evolving Object-Oriented Systems, > Proceedings of the Symposium on Object Oriented Programming > Emphasizing Practical Applications (SOOPPA) September, 1990, ACM by > William F. Opdyke and Ralph E. Johnson. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
