Design Patterns
1994 software engineering book / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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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| Author | The "Gang of Four": |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Subject | Design patterns, software engineering, object-oriented programming |
| Publisher | Addison-Wesley |
Publication date | 1994 |
| Pages | 395 |
| ISBN | 0-201-63361-2 |
| OCLC | 31171684 |
| 005.1/2 20 | |
| LC Class | QA76.64 .D47 1995 |
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]