A belated pleasure--book review "The fun of Patterns"

a belated pleasure (This is the first in the "Chinese reading newspaper, October 22, 2003")

Bear Festival

Chien Chung once had a word, the effect is said: pocket money Although also own money, turn out the time but always feel that is unexpected wealth hi. Inadvertently found this protracted years of "the fun of the Model" (Tsinghua University Press September 2003) unexpectedly, my mood is probably changed from the shirt bag to turn out the money, but a modest surprise. If the translator can be regarded as the adoptive father of translation works, I think I should be obliged to say a few words to the child who has been snubbed.

Once again opened the dust-laden version, perhaps quite can make me gratified that this "early works" of the translating pen unexpectedly is not as unbearable as imagined-"as a child of the living" although it seems a bit abrupt, but not to make me "frightening and laugh." Perhaps the biggest flaw in translation is that there is no written translation of the poor child. A momentary lapse made it somewhat like an orphan orphaned by solitude.

To be fair, the greatest failure of the fun of the model is ... It came too late. On Amazon's website, one reader's comment was pertinent: "You can think of this book as a shorthand version of design patterns--in a more understandable language." The latter, however, is better than the "design Pattern Analysis" (The July 2003 Xerox edition of the Power Press). "Should have been read the design pattern", the subtlety of the first introductory book, the fun of patterns, comes late only after more expected readers have the common sense of the pattern-and is just behind the design pattern parsing (although the latter only has a copy of the original version). Thus, naturally, it was placed in a rather awkward position: the mere hundred pages of space made it insufficient to satisfy the reader's thirst for knowledge. Perhaps, just like its name, it can only be hoped that it will be sandwiched among other withered or less withered macro works, giving the reader a little "fun".

Another embarrassment is the original English title: the subtitle "Using Patterns for Enterprise Development" is downright inconsistent, perhaps simply because the word "Enterprise" sounds cool, the author Brandon Goldfedder will be happy to let it appear in the title. Yes, this book is not amorites with what we often call "enterprise-level development", and it is a real introductory textbook of patterns. In commenting on Dr Shanhong's Java and model, I mentioned "four elements of a model textbook", This thin little book has faithfully complied with the four-point requirement: It introduces the C.alexander model theory in a comprehensible way, it is reasonable to introduce the foundation of object-oriented Design, it take pains explain the principle and usage of several important GOF patterns, it describes the tool that the program structure uses is UML and Java. As an introductory textbook for another model, the 164 pages of "fun of patterns" and the 1K page of Java and schema are a "terrible symmetry"-perhaps another advantage of the fun of patterns: readers will be happy to read it on the bus.

However, although did not give himself too much space, Goldfedder is not stingy with beautiful ideas. As a full-time consultant, he seems to be willing to add some breadth to his lack of depth of work. "The fun of patterns" dabbled in almost all the fashionable topics in the Circle: code review/Design Review, James Coplien's commonalities/change point analysis, component technology, William Opdyke's PhD thesis, Martin Fowler's refactoring, XP ... Nature, in the most abbreviated manner. Admittedly, these are the appropriate embellishment to make this little book more fun to read, I bet there will be readers like this taste. When it comes to the details of a specific model, it looks more like a Wrox expert one-to-one. Although I do not agree to add too much code to a pattern monograph, an immediate example may indeed help beginners to find confidence in the situation.

　　In the final analysis, as a translator and a picky reader, how can I evaluate the fun of this model? One of Amazon's other readers ' comments intrigued me: "After reading the fun of cooking and the fun of sex, this is the third" fun of XX "I read, and what an interesting reading experience. "The nonsense of the critical routines, perhaps very suitable for this book exudes an awkward humorous atmosphere of the introductory material."