Whenever an activity occurs in repetition, such as programming, patterns emerge and can be documented. The benefits of documenting and using software design patterns are well established, as are some ...

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One of the most common patterns in popular programming is runtime polymorphism. As in, the ability to have a set of heterogeneous objects which can all perform a common action (like a set of shapes ...