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		mbrock on May 19, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Software Design Patterns Are Not Goals, They Are T... Many, but not all, and the idea that nonreified patterns indicate a flawed language is pernicious. Gabriel's book talks about this.

eru on May 19, 2016 [–]

Yes. We can go further: ability to reify patterns can be seen as a synonym as ability to abstract.

Funny enough, Java at least originally deliberate tried to limit people's ability to abstract common patterns in the name of `readability by average programmers'. At least that's the folklore.

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