AW: slide: useful function?

[Andrew J Bromage]

G'day all.

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:27:21AM +0100, John Hughes wrote:

> There are patterns of that sort in our programs, which we would probably
> rather call design techniques, which aren't so easily captured by a
> higher-order function definition.

As a matter of interest, _why_ would we rather call them "design
techniques" than "design patterns"?  Is it just an aversion to
buzzwords, or are they fundamentally different?

Cheers,
Andrew Bromage