Preface
A former colleague of mine used to say that thick books about design patterns were evidence of an inadequate programming language. What he meant was that, because design patterns are the common idioms of code, a good programming language should make them very easy to implement. An ideal language would so thoroughly integrate the patterns that they would almost disappear from sight.
To take an extreme example, in the late 1980s I worked on a project that produced object-oriented code in C. Yes, C, not C++. We pulled off this feat by having each "object" (actually a C structure) point to a table of function pointers. We operated on our "objects" by chasing the pointer to the table and calling functions out of the table, thereby simulating ...
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