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Apr 12, 2017 at 7:31 history edited CommunityBot
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Feb 20, 2014 at 8:31 comment added gbjbaanb A design pattern is the same as he's done with C&P Cobol, a singleton is always coded the exact same way - you can even get some IDEs to spit out the boilerplate for you now. That's nothing significantly different from cut and paste.
Jun 19, 2013 at 7:45 comment added Vorac Hmm, I understand this copying code around as the same as a library, though more primitive.
Jun 18, 2013 at 18:31 comment added Izkata @GilbertLeBlanc Yeah, that works too. What I meant by "at least as we use the term today", I meant more the layout of the code itself, rather than how the code comes into being in a new program.
Jun 18, 2013 at 18:09 comment added Gilbert Le Blanc @Izkata: It's not really a coding pattern, since you're avoiding most of the coding. How about a "template pattern"? You're right that copy/paste/change is not a good design by today's standards. Back then, it was the best we had.
Jun 18, 2013 at 18:04 comment added Izkata It doesn't feel right to call "copy/paste/change" a "design pattern" (at least as we use the term today) - perhaps that's more of a "coding pattern"?
Jun 18, 2013 at 16:48 comment added dbasnett How about BONSOP, which is still used today ;)
Jun 18, 2013 at 14:55 comment added Kevin Flynn +1. I had the same experience with Cobol, Pascal and teaching myself Basic on a Vic-20 back when. There were many things that I reused and copied around.
Jun 18, 2013 at 14:38 history answered Gilbert Le Blanc CC BY-SA 3.0