On 8/8/07, Richard Lynch <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, July 31, 2007 8:40 am, Eric Butera wrote: > > On 7/31/07, Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> i > >> feel sorry for Richard; if youd ever seen a successful > >> implementation of > >> design patterns in the wild > >> well you would probly feel like i do... gotta have em :) > > This post is a result of SEVERAL recent emails I've received, and is > not directed SOLELY at the OP. > > WHY do people ASSUME that a poster has never actually tried X, just > because they don't like it?! > > I do not understand this attitude. > > It's particularly annoying when I specifically state that I *have* > suffered through several implementation of design patterns in the wild > (or whatever it is that somebody ASSUMES I have not investigated). > sorry if i offended you Richard. but if you look more closely at the statement i posted you will see that i assumed you havent seen a successful implementation of design patterns in the wild. and indeed i still feel its safe to assume you havent unless you say otherwise, because you keep saying you loathe them, due to failed implementations of design patterns of which you have observed. -nathan
