[FlashCodersNY] Design pattern skepticism

[Rendall]

I know a coder who insists that real coders use Cairgorm, or PureMVC
if they must.  Tim, I know you know who I mean.


On 6/5/09, Alan Klement <ultraky at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think someone said it very well already: is the fact that many people who
> use design patterns, often are tying to make it make it fit to a particular
> circumstance.  The problem is that every project is different.
>
> Also, design patterns have this aspect of making things modular and making
> things modular can be unnecessary and cumbersome.
>
> Flash is also different because performance and file size is an issue.  When
> developing a Java application, we can abstract the hell out of an
> application and turn 3 classes into 10.
>
> When doing this with flash, the programmer is slowing down their application
> and adding file size.  A Java application that is 20% heavier, doesn't
> really matter much.  A Flash application that is 20% heavier is a
> significant issue.
>
> Likewise, as was suggested before, in order to implement MVC with Flash, one
> can encapsulate views to make it fit in with Flash's display list.  That
> right there is adding more code, and altering what MVC is supposed to be
> about. Your now adding file size and slowing down your application.
>
> Alan
>
> On 6/5/09 2:05 PM, "Justin Stander" <jstander at schematic.com> wrote:
>
>> implementations of design patterns be spaghetti code?
>
>
>
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