To me it's just simply a way to organize code, there's nothing inherently good or bad about classes. You can use or abuse them like anything else. It never hur

To me it's just simply a way to organize code, there's nothing inherently good or bad about classes. You can use or abuse them like anything else. It never hurts to know the basic GoF patterns and when to use them to simplify your code or solve a common problem. You can use them with or without classes. Most Javascript libraries that I look at today use closures, prototypes and anonymous objects that might as well be classes. Patterns seem to be making a huge appearance in client-side code in the last year. I'll admit that I don't know anything about Python, though.