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Subject: Re: Running a preprocessor from GPS?
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On 07/31/2015 04:26 AM, Brian Drummond wrote:
> 
> I have sometimes felt it would be useful to translate some of the 
> standard programming texts into Ada - some of the GoF "Design Patterns" 
> turn out to be utterly trivial in Ada; some others have been covered ad-
> hoc in the "Gems" series, in other cases I'm not clear which of several 
> approaches would be most appropriate.

Many of the "design patterns" are actually implementation patterns to work
around deficiencies in the languages used in the book. An obvious example is the
"singleton pattern". In Ada, a singleton is simply a pkg. It's only a problem
that needs a pattern in languages that lack modules.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"I'm a kike, a yid, a heebie, a hook nose! I'm Kosher,
Mum! I'm a Red Sea pedestrian, and proud of it!"
Monty Python's Life of Brian
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