General talk about software patterns

[Ralph Johnson <johnson AT cs.uiuc.edu>]

When you say "design patterns", do you mean the patterns in
the book "Design Patterns" or software patterns in general?
If Matlab is not OO then the patterns in "Design Patterns"
are not likely to be of much use because they are about OO design.
But all software has patterns in it, the question is just which ones.
It would be interesting to study Matlab to discover the patterns
in it.  It is not interesting to see which patterns could be
put into a system.  Instead, you should think about what patterns
SHOULD be put into it, and that depends on the problems it has.
What are the problems of Matlab?  What needs to be improved?
If you understand its current design and know the problems you
want to solve, then you have some chance at finding patterns
that can improve it.  But since I don't know Matlab, I can't
help you there.  You would be better off asking a Matlab
mailing list questions about Matlab.

-Ralph Johnson