I started reading Richard Gabriel's book Patterns of Software just recently, enjoying it immensely. He has it available at https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/Patt

I started reading Richard Gabriel's book Patterns of Software just recently, enjoying it immensely. He has it available at https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf It's very much not a GoF "patterns" book but about more important (though harder to nail down) concepts like "code habitability". It's even got an introduction by Christopher Alexander himself that I appreciated. If "Patterns" have failed, it's at least in part because we've been reading the wrong material.