Comment by wbl
If by discredited you mean incorporated into many of the most used languages as well as several of the hot new ones then yes.
Furthermore part of PLT is learning the past and what worked and what didn't.
If by discredited you mean incorporated into many of the most used languages as well as several of the hot new ones then yes.
Furthermore part of PLT is learning the past and what worked and what didn't.
I don't think that literally means learning how to write AbstractFactories in Java.