http://norvig.com/design-patterns/ http://norvig.com/design-patterns/ illustrates the role of design patterns in dynamic languages: some are less important, oth

http://norvig.com/design-patterns/ http://norvig.com/design-patterns/ illustrates the role of design patterns in dynamic languages: some are less important, others stay. But you could come up with that for yourself by comparing the need for a visitor pattern in, say, Java and Python respectively its implementation in both. [EDIT] Of course other programming paradigms can develop other patterns, if they are confronted with problems they cannot solve from the outset. That was more raganwald's point.