[catnaroek]

Presumably the point is that most functional programmers wouldn't have bothered giving dedicated names to, say, “strategies” or “factories”, more or less the same way nobody would bother calling “(a + b) / 2” the “average pattern”.

[geezerjay]

> nobody would bother calling “(a + b) / 2” the “average pattern”.

don't you mean.... the arithmetic mean?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_mean

Oh my god, and people bother themselves calling the addition o sequences of numbers as summation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summation

Where does this madness end? These morons even bothered themselves forming whole fields in mathematics by studying adding numbers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_(mathematics)

Why is humanity so wrong about such a simple concept? Why is everyone bothered to give dedicated names to concepts you fail to understand?

[catnaroek]

The mean is an precisely defined operation in mathematics, not a vaguely defined “pattern” in software engineering.

I insist: You only need “patterns” when you can't articulate your ideas precisely in a formal language, such as a programming language or mathematics.

[guelo]

Maybe they would call it a monoid or something much clearer like that.

[catnaroek]

Fortunately you have about an hour to edit your comment into something that, at least, is not patently stupid.