Design Patterns

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.

This article is about the book. For the generic articles, see software design pattern and design pattern.

Design Patterns:
Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Author
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

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 copies have been sold in English and in 13 other languages. The authors are often referred to as the Gang of Four (GoF).

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