Design Patterns vs. Language Design

  • Authors:
  • Joseph Gil;David H. Lorenz

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ECOOP '97 Proceedings of the Workshops on Object-Oriented Technology
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

This report investigates the relationships between design patterns and programming languages. A comparison is carried out between the usual track of programming languages development and the discovery of patterns. We argue that there are fundamental differences between the two. We offer a taxonomy of patterns based on how far they are from becoming actual language features. An observation is made that many patterns are in essence a set of rules governing the relations between two objects in run time. An initial multi-dimensional classification of such relationships is proposed.