[osflash] Share the knowledge: Books

[Martin Wood]

I think one of the main forces behind design patterns is communication, 
they allow us to talk about software design using a common language 
which represents often found architectural features (errm, patterns :)

every programming language will have patterns, be it functional, OO, 
procedural, whatever.

maybe some patterns (and anti-patterns) describe ways in which we deal 
with flaws (or features, depends on your point of view), but i think its 
  slightly disingenuous to say that patterns are bandages for bad 
languages. (bad nicolas, bad.. :)

i think they have been discussed a lot more in OO languages because most 
large scale software development has been conducted within that realm 
for the past so many years.

Im sure we will start to see patterns relating to AOP in the near future 
as that becomes a more common part of development.

anyway, back to the books, at the moment im also enjoying

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
By Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts

and joining the two topics together :

Refactoring to Patterns
By Joshua Kerievsky

martin