http://xblog.xman.org/articles/2006/09/16/ralph-johnson-on-design-patterns-of-1972 en-us 40 hey, if it has a capital X in it, it has to be great! <p>Ralph Johnson, yes, <a href="http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/ralph/blogView?showComments=true&amp;entry=3335803396" title="Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software">that Ralph Johnson</a> , has done an <a href="http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/ralph/blogView?showComments=true&amp;entry=3335803396" title="Design patterns and language design">excellent write up on some of the recent criticism of languages/design patterns</a>. He expresses the thoughts that have been going through my head far more eloquently than I could hope to. In particular, the folks who think that design patterns were a C++ thing really need to get out more and anyone who thinks that a language ought to have built-in implementations for every software design strategy conceived of by man&#8230;. clearly hasn&#8217;t tried to design such a language.</p> Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:13:00 -0700 urn:uuid:407220a3-6286-4551-b48e-2e18e4bcf32e Christopher Smith http://xblog.xman.org/articles/2006/09/16/ralph-johnson-on-design-patterns-of-1972 Programming design patterns ralph johnson programming languages language http://xblog.xman.org/articles/trackback/120