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- This is a very interesting answer. For me this is a totally new coincept. I am a Delphi developer (so somehow facing the same problems that java/c# developers face), but I am interested in learning new things. May you please shed some more light (maybe giving me a reference to a link) on " the patterns are a good way to solve some problems inherent to languages without higher-order constructs"? Thanks.user193655– user1936552010-11-02 13:44:48 +00:00Commented Nov 2, 2010 at 13:44
- @user5396: A classic one is by Peter Norvig: norvig.com/design-patterns, which is by the way 12 years old. According to him, 16 of 23 patterns in the GoF book are much simpler in dynamic languages. I would recommend reading Practical Common Lisp (available at gigamonkeys.com/book) and maybe Higher Order Perl (hop.perl.plover.com) to see what a proper dynamic language is capable of.Nikolai Prokoschenko– Nikolai Prokoschenko2010-11-02 14:14:59 +00:00Commented Nov 2, 2010 at 14:14
- Thanks for the links. My first feeling is that if one doesn't need super control of algorithm details it makes more sense to develop with these kinds of languages. I can imagine that the current scenario is too many people using Java/c#/Delphi while they could be more productive in Python and Co. Am I correct?user193655– user1936552010-11-02 15:55:26 +00:00Commented Nov 2, 2010 at 15:55
- @user5396: depends a bit on people's training, since if they are trained to a Java mindset, they'd probably be less productive with e.g. Python, producing anti-pythonical solutions. I don't fully understand what you've meant by "super control of algorithm", but there should be no controlling problems with either programming language.Nikolai Prokoschenko– Nikolai Prokoschenko2010-11-03 14:55:49 +00:00Commented Nov 3, 2010 at 14:55
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