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Re:Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C by TheArcane on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @04:15AM (#17448385)
GoF?
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Re:Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C by Wildgoose on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @05:47AM (#17448828)
The "Gang of Four", the four authors who wrote the classic "Design Patterns" book, (subtitled "elements of re-usable object-oriented software").
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Re:Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C by sethrin on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @08:36AM (#17449626)
As Wildgoose says, it's a frequently-used initialism for the Design Patterns book, which is otherwise somewhat awkward to refer to concisely and unambiguously.
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