[kabdib]

I've worked in shops where GoF ruled. Everything was a factory, even the things that /weren't/ factories were being /called/ factories, and there were zillions of singletons peppering the landscape.

"You've got a singleton class with a single method and no members . . . why don't you make this thing a function?"

"Uh, it wouldn't be a pattern then, would it. Um, would it?"

And the XML. Oh, dear Lord. I have a doctor's slip now stating that I am allergic to XML and that's the reason I'm breaking out in hives, whooping for air and leaving the room.

I sometimes wonder what would have happened to the software industry if the entries in GoF had been written in a different order. Would we see a plague of Visitors and Observers?