> The GoF list of design patterns is very much tightly coupled to the peculiarities of Java at the time the book was written GoF publication date: 1994; Java l

> The GoF list of design patterns is very much tightly coupled to the peculiarities of Java at the time the book was written GoF publication date: 1994; Java launch date: 1995 The patterns are essentially Smalltalk-based, though the authors had been implementing the same ideas in C++ - Gamma in ET++ and Vlissides in InterViews.