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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada-Singleton-Why does it work like this?
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"patrick.gunia@googlemail.com" <patrick.gunia@googlemail.com> writes:

> This might be true for some simple patterns like Singleton, though I
> think that most patterns solve problems which are language
> independent, thus not aiming at a language deficiency. For example
> patterns for using frameworks or letting different interfaces
> communicate with each other. It seems to me that this is an
> architectural question, not a language question.

More than half of the design patterns in Gamma et al are unnecessary in
some language (in some cases, in Ada), either because they are supported
directly by the language, or because they are so trivial that you
wouldn't bother calling them a "pattern".

- Bob