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Meta programming (Score:1)
I think Perl has continually defied these attempts to package patterns because of it's meta programmability.
Things we previously thought were not possible to package are now on CPAN as usable modules.
Design patterns are thus getting more and more refined, and in time converge simply with the best practices for the software that helps to implement them.
In the Java community metaprogramming is a much more difficult thing, so in order to produce extensible, reusable and clean code you need to have a much stric
Re:Meta programming (Score:1)
bah, i meant attempts to *define*
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