> I always viewed design patterns as providing a shared name for common solutions to common problems. And that forcing a common solution to a range of different

> I always viewed design patterns as providing a shared name for common solutions to common problems. And that forcing a common solution to a range of different problems was a misuse of them. Exactly, a design pattern is just that: a pattern of design, that shows up organically after you have enough systems designed in the same language. Many of the design patterns that occur in languages like C++ and Java don't show up in Lisp because Lisp is a rather different language, but then we have our own design patterns as well, things like with- macros.