RE: lua-l Digest, Vol 43, Issue 68

["John Hind" <john.hind@...>]

While we are referencing opinionated buffoons, there is this famous one:

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html

You would be hard-pushed to find the point being so elegantly missed anywhere else!

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> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:32:51 +0900
> From: "Journeyer J. Joh" <oosaprogrammer@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: How can I learn about Object Oriented programming with
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> Hi Steve Donovan and Philipp Janda
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@gmx.net>
> wrote:
> > > I've heard that before (from a Lisp guy, surprise!). I think it was
> > > Paul Graham (see here[1]).
> > Ah, the original Mr Opinions...(I do like his essays tho) Good quote
> > from that page:
> > ""Peter Norvig found that 16 of the 23 patterns in Design Patterns
> > were 'invisible or simpler' in Lisp."
> > http://www.norvig.com/design-patterns/";
> > For Lisp, read Lua ;)
>
>
> Those papers are interesting. I will read those.
> Thank you very much!
>
> Sincerely
> Journeyer
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> 2014-02-27 23:09 GMT+09:00 steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com>:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@gmx.net>
> wrote:
> > > I've heard that before (from a Lisp guy, surprise!). I think it was
> > > Paul Graham (see here[1]).
> >
> > Ah, the original Mr Opinions...(I do like his essays tho)
> >
> > Good quote from that page:
> >
> > ""Peter Norvig found that 16 of the 23 patterns in Design Patterns
> > were 'invisible or simpler' in Lisp."
> > http://www.norvig.com/design-patterns/";
> >
> > For Lisp, read Lua ;)
> >
> > But note - some of those patterns did not disappear...
> >
> > e.g. "Observer is a publish/subscribe pattern ...".  That's a useful
> > idea.  It's not difficult to implement in Lua, but that has nothing
> to
> > do with its usefulness.  You have various subsystems, and they need
> to
> > track changes. Rather than forcing the changing code to notify them
> > all, rather make the subsystems subscribe to events caused by the
> > change.
> >
> > steve d.
> >
> >
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