Thanks, Gang! Developers Talk Frankly About a Decade of Design Patterns
A decade later, the Gang of Four's "Design Patterns" is still a top seller and a "must read" for students and professionals. To celebrate its success, we asked programming professionals to tell us how this seminal work has influenced them. Some of their answers surprised us.
by Glen Kunene, Senior Editor
January 18, 2005
en years have passed since Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides (aka the Gang of Four or GoF) wrote and published Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (1st Edition: January 15, 1995). And while most programming books that old are as passé as the technologies they covered or required second and third editions along the way, the GoF's seminal work still flies off bookshelves, despite being the same text that debuted in the fall of 1994—an eon ago in Internet time.
Design Patterns, which was first to formalize the idea of creating reusable object-oriented code solutions, still ranks among Amazon's top-selling computer science books, holding its own against much newer books that hit the shelves in the new millennium. Imagine seeing Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code still among Amazon's top-selling books in 2013. While we suppose it's not outside the realm of possibility considering the book's longstanding popularity, it would still deserve a celebratory nod toward the author.
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en years have passed since Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides (aka the Gang of Four or GoF) wrote and published 
