Whats the difference between a set of patterns and a style guide?
While it might be possible to structure style guides as sets of patterns, none of them do. In particular, style guides typically omit descriptions about how to construct solutions. • What’s the difference between a pattern and a programming idiom? A pattern can characterize an idiom, along with descriptions of how, when, and why to use it. • Can patterns describe standard OOP concepts like inheritance? Sure; similar answer. • Are patterns programming-language-independent? Some (even most) are. • What’s the difference between a pattern and a data structure? The designs described in (only) some patterns consist of specialized data structures and related techniques. • Why bother writing patterns that just boil down to advice my grandmother would give me? Because some patterns are so good and useful that even your grandmother knows them. Writing them down makes the context, value and implications of the advice clearer than your grandmother probably did. • Must all patterns be so [low-level
