[ncmncm]

"Pattern" comes from the Gang of Four book, by way of confusion about an entirely different concept from architecture.

The book has not aged well. Its vocabulary has turned out to be decreasingly useful. I go for many months at a stretch without encountering any reason to mention any of them. The only names that come to mind, at the moment, are the "visitor" and "pimpl" patterns, only the latter of which I have used in the past decade, and that because it is imperfectly supported by the library template std::unique_ptr<>.

That is not for lack of discussion of choices among possible solutions to problems. Notably, most on https://cpppatterns.com/ are just library components.

[mikekchar]

Pattern comes from here: http://c2.com/doc/oopsla87.html It even says so in the GoF book.