I thought the same when reading the article. What he calls formal patterns, aren't those a sort of language in itself, one in which the coders talk to each oth

I thought the same when reading the article. What he calls formal patterns, aren't those a sort of language in itself, one in which the coders talk to each other? Almost like comments. You recognize the pattern, when you browse the code and think. "Aha, yes, so, there we go, uhm, okay…" and so on.