Am 17.04.2017 um 16:56 schrieb David McClain:
I totally ignored the Programming Patterns cycle, so whenever I hear references to such patterns I first have to Google them. I can appreciate that practitioners would want a taxonomy, but for myself, I see programming patterns in an entirely different light. I have been designing and programming computers for longer than most readers on this site have been alive. But programming has always been only a tool for me, a sharp pencil, a side channel, in the pursuit of physics.
Programming is complicated enough to require its own terminology, so it's more than a mere sharp pencil. Design Patterns were a fad, but a pretty atypical one, because the seminal work (the famous "Gang-of-Four Book") made it pretty clear what a Design Pattern was good for and what it wouldn't do. So a lot of the hyperbole was cut short. :-)