[Tutor] Another new book

alan.gauld@bt.com alan.gauld@bt.com
Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:43:37 -0000


> > 1) The GoF book is not about Java, it's primarily written about
> > Smalltalk which is dynamically typed like Python. Almost all
> > the GoF used Smalltalk at the time they wrote the original
> 
> oh!, the one i own has C++ examples.

Yes it has, but that was because of the marketplace - everyone was 
using C++ then. Nowadays it would be Java. But the ideas were 
mainly developed in Smalltalk.

Or so Ralph Johnston said at the seminar I attended...

Alan g.
Author of the 'Learning to Program' web site
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld