> The problem with the design patterns books (including the GoF one) is that in the end they didn't have much influence. Really? The Gang of Four book was my f

> The problem with the design patterns books (including the GoF one) is that in the end they didn't have much influence. Really? The Gang of Four book was my favorite programming book from the 1990s. A lot of people read GoF as a cookbook which I think devalues it and leads to a very dogmatic design approach. The message I got from applying GoF over a period of years is that there are existing, flexible patterns that you can use to organize large object oriented systems, though they don't solve nearly every problem and you'll need to tune them for each design. Viewed that way it's a work that can give you inspiration for decades.