IMHO design patterns have been a great success because they have caused people to think about designs and suggested a vocabulary for discussing them. Whether o

IMHO design patterns have been a great success because they have caused people to think about designs and suggested a vocabulary for discussing them. Whether or not any specific world changing patterns have come out of the movement doesn't really matter to me. What matters is that the average blub programmer is just a little closer to understanding that classes are not just for modelling real world 'things'. (I'm mostly an OOP programmer, assume something intelligent about functional programmers etc for me...)