[mironathetin]

No sarcasm necessary.

I am pretty convinced that GoF did not expect how popular their book may become. Looking back, it is always easier to judge.

Looking back, with no offense to GoF, what happened can be understood. GoF did a great work for all these "I badly need to sell something new and hot to all these saturated development shops" guys. Read the pattern book once, teach it a hundred times for 2000$ a person. Great stuff.

Now, of course it is due to the single developer to use patterns or not. But the average developer is - well average. Using a pattern is much easier than to understand, when to use and when not to use.

I indeed should have been more precise in my statement: our code got bloated and unmaintainable because there are pattern all over. This is not GoFs fault, it is the fault of all the developers who just read the book and want to apply everything instantly, everywhere. It is also the fault of the community, who did not recognize at once, that pattern should be used only, if they solve a problem that is hard to solve without patterns.