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A debate on language and tool support for design patterns

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Craig Chambers,

John VlissidesAuthors Info & Claims

POPL '00: Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages

Pages 277 - 289

https://doi.org/10.1145/325694.325731

Published: 05 January 2000 Publication History

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Design patterns have earned a place in the developer's arsenal of tools and techniques for software development. They have proved so useful, in fact, that some have called for their promotion to programming language features. In turn this has rekindled the age-old debate over the mechanism that belong in programming languages versus those that are better served by tools. The debate comes full circle when one contemplates code generation and methodological tool support for patterns. The authors compare and contrast programming languages, tools, and patterns to assess their relative merits and to clarify their roles in the development process.

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A debate on language and tool support for design patterns
1. Software and its engineering
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    1. Designing software
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        Software design techniques
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