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Re:The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow by gnufied on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @09:13AM (#13598302)
Careful there - lest you throw the baby with the water.

As with all things - there are some good ideas there and some bad. And as I understand it, the book simply presented patterns - programmers were already using at that time. So the book's existence in itself wouldn't cause bad code IMO.

Now if someone were to write a "modern design patterns" book, people will probably write about:

1. Actor pattern and concurrency using message passing.

2. Immutability and - designing types with no shared mutable state.

3. Dependency injection

4. Pattern matching

5. MVC

6. mocks and stubs and fake objects?

7. ...

And same as before - some of these ideas when applied to certain cases could be bad.

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Re:The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow by runako on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @09:17AM (#13598335)
> "if someone were to write a "modern design patterns" book"

Based on my recollection of the original Design Patterns book, all of the patterns you list are included in the original book. Caveat: I haven't opened the book in over 5 years, but I'd be surprised to learn that any of the 6 patterns you list are not in the original DP.

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Re:The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow by gnufied on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @09:22AM (#13598366)
What i listed was just an example but you can verify quickly - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0201633612/?tag=devbookscom20-20 without opening the actual book.

And afaict - none of the patterns I listed are mentioned verbatim.

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Re:The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow by laxd on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @10:26AM (#13598923)
Seems like MVC is treated in GoF. http://blog.iandavis.com/2008/12/what-are-the-benefits-of-mv...
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Re:The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow by munificent on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @11:44AM (#13599654)
It talks a little about it, but it's not called out as a specific pattern with a chapter all its own.
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Re:The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow by Nition on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @05:52PM (#13602975)
Having read Design Patterns in the past, I found http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com to be a really good modern follow-up, though it's targeted at game developers in particular.
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