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by rbanffy 4338 days ago
I think the key usefulness of books like "Design Patterns" is to create a common language. Now, when I say "this is an observer" people instantly know it subscribes to an "observable" which notifies its observers by calling their callbacks.

Now... What I am sick of is people misapplying those patterns in situations and languages they really shouldn't.