what's up with 'patterns'?

[Max M]

Guyon Morée wrote:


> i've seen several topics referring to 'patterns'.
> i am unfamiliar with this. could someone explaint to me what this is all
> about?


Well people have been doing object oriented programming for several 
years by now, and some programmers have noticed that patterns are 
starting to emerge in how they use objects to reach their goals.

That is as they try to solve different problems they often use the same 
method of solving their problem.

These patterns has been described and named in litterature, so that 
programmers can refer to them under their pattern names.

Try to google on "Programming Patterns", that will most likely turn up 
more info than you care to shake a stick at ...

regards max M