On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:09:37 am Alan Gauld wrote: > "Steven D'Aprano" <st...@pearwood.info> wrote > > > < much sense about singleton v global> > > > > and think this makes their code "better". (I blame the Go4 for > > making a > > religion out of design patterns which exist only to work around > > Java's > > limitations.) > > In fact the original design patterns were based around Smalltalk's > limitations since most of the Go4 were/are Smalltalk hackers. And > thus the Singleton - because Smalltalk has no concept of global > variables. > > The book was registered in 1994 and released in 1995, a full year > before the first Java JDK was made publicly available.
Fair enough, I stand corrected. Thank you. Nevertheless, the design pattern book has been picked up by the Java crowd and elevated almost to the status of a religion, rather than a set of useful tools. Especially the Singleton pattern, probably because it's the only one which most programmers can understand *wink* -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
