>I'd argue that Design Patterns mostly appeared because of Java. [...] And such workarounds were collected, tagged, and proposed as Design Patterns Fyi... "Des

>I'd argue that Design Patterns mostly appeared because of Java. [...] And such workarounds were collected, tagged, and proposed as Design Patterns Fyi... "Design Patterns" in 1994 predates Java 1995. Design patterns in some form have been around as long as computers have been around. Independent teams of programmers notice a repetition of code or a higher-level idea and they make it a convention. E.g. the "observer" pattern was something Smalltalk and Objective-C programmers did more than a decade before Java. Before "Design Patterns" became a meme/book, different teams used different vocabulary. Maybe they'd call it the "event watcher code convention" instead of "observer pattern". DP was a book of past practices gathered from the real world and it got everyone to converge on the same vocabulary to label what they were already doing.