Design Patterns

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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (1994) is a software engineering book describing software design patterns. The book was written by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides, with a foreword by Grady Booch. The book is divided into two parts, with the first two chapters exploring the capabilities and pitfalls of object-oriented programming, and the remaining chapters describing 23 classic software design patterns. The book includes examples in C++ and Smalltalk.

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Design Patterns:
Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
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AuthorThe "Gang of Four":
CountryUnited States
SubjectDesign patterns, software engineering, object-oriented programming
PublisherAddison-Wesley
Publication date
1994
Pages395
ISBN0-201-63361-2
OCLC31171684
005.1/2 20
LC ClassQA76.64 .D47 1995
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It has been influential to the field of software engineering and is regarded as an important source for object-oriented design theory and practice. More than 500,000[citation needed] copies have been sold in English and in 13 other languages. The authors are often referred to as the Gang of Four (GoF).[1]