[Edu-sig] Refocusing on Capabilities (was PySqueak)
kirby urner
kirby.urner at gmail.com
Sat May 27 04:19:04 CEST 2006
> As a language, no. As a practice, *I* certainly would discourage it
> except when used internally as an implementation detail.
I agree that the DP (design pattern) generation is making better sense
around when to use and when not to use subclassing. O'Reilly's 'Head
First Into Design Patterns' is a good example. I plugged it in my
Saturday Academy class, along with TAOCP, NKS, and Zelle's Python
intro.
Here're some negative comments about this book that I liked, to help
us stay well rounded:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000380.html
Kirby
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