Polymorphic Rants

While I was reviewing this (awful) code, I realized how an enum for me is nothing more than a strategy pattern out of the box in Java.

Few days later I read this interesting article from Ralph Johnson (GoF anyone ?) where he says something pretty close to my point of view:

Design patterns are not made of stone.
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Over time, we should change our programming languages so that they build in things that used to be patterns.

If Ralph and I are on the same page, I’m happy

This evolution of modern languages will (hopefully) increase the number of people that are really able to write Object Oriented code, thinking about behaviour and not just about data.