Are you suggesting patterns don't exist in other programming paradigms? We just saw a top level post on lessons from Haskell, for example, that while not using

Are you suggesting patterns don't exist in other programming paradigms? We just saw a top level post on lessons from Haskell, for example, that while not using the pattern form, expressed a variety of idomatic, reusable solutions to contextualized problems. Secondly, I think you are misusing the term Cargo Cult. Someone like Doug Lea (the OP) has a lot of experience with good software design - his concurrency libraries, in particular. Suggesting that OOP as a whole is a cargo cult is the height of ignorance.