What Are Patterns?
Historical References
In the 1970s, Christopher Alexander [Alex, Alex2] wrote a number of books documenting patterns in civil engineering and architecture. The software community subsequently adopted the idea of patterns based on his work, though there was burgeoning interest in the software community in these ideas already.
Patterns in software were popularized by the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides (also known as the Gang of Four, or GoF). Of course, while the Gang of Four work resulted in patterns becoming a common discussion topic in software development teams around the world, the important point to remember is that the ...
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