A debate on language and tool support for design patterns

Abstract

Design patterns have earned a place in the developer's arsenal of tools and techniques for software development. They have proved so useful, in fact, that some have called for their promotion to programming language features. In turn this has rekindled the age-old debate over the mechanism that belong in programming languages versus those that are better served by tools. The debate comes full circle when one contemplates code generation and methodological tool support for patterns. The authors compare and contrast programming languages, tools, and patterns to assess their relative merits and to clarify their roles in the development process.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 46 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.