I studied C++ and the GoF book long
before i embarked upon the Perl path. At some point during
my journey down the Perl path, i thought it would be really
neat if someone (me) wrote Perl versions of each of the
GoF Patterns. Well, someone already did (partially) -
http://www.patternsinperl.com. But, there is a funny
thing about Perl - read Dominus's
"Design Patterns" Aren't for more.
I personally think that Design Patterns are worthy of
studying, they can really help you design better. There are
real world examples of Design Patterns implemented in Perl,
such as what Matts discusses at his paper on
Proxy
Objects. There are plenty of other examples here at this
site, such as a Factory Pattern that i
demonstrated a while back (be sure and read Kanji's and
merlyn's comments from the root thread as well if you
do follow that link). Just try the new and improved
Super Search (tye++ once again).
Now, are Design Patterns going to reverse the Big Ball of
Mud for you. No, only you, your co-workers, a lot of
planning, and time can do that, but that doesn't mean that
you shouldn't learn how a few patterns work. You never know when they might be useful. I wish you the
best of luck, i myself have been handed a medium sized ball
of mud (written in ASP and VBA for Access, no less) that
someone else wrote. Right now, the most critical piece to
shaping this lump into a more manageable product is to
clean up the database schema - to bad the GoF didn't invent
a Preventative LART Pattern*. I can't complain though, it
is nice to be employed again. :)
jeffa
* prevents non-coders from thinking they can
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