[dragonwriter]

All languages need design patterns; they are about designing how to implement certain functionality.

Languages differ in which design patterns have a native expression in the language, which can be reduced to simple reusable library code, and which require type-it-in-each-time fill-in-the-blanks code recipes.

The fact that Design Patterns were popularized in software development by the GoF book which, among other things, included code recipes to illustrate its patterns, and that the patterns in it tended to be ones for which the popular languages of the day required code recipes (lacking native implementations or the ability to provide general implementations as library code), has unfortunately associated the term with the code recipes, which aren't really the central point of understanding and using patterns.