That article was kind of tedious to wade through. In general, I'm in the camp of "design patterns are language band-aids". PG seems to be one of the quotables on this topic. I was recently trying to elucidate this in my own thinking, given that the languages I've used over the last few years have kept my GoF on the shelf. Here's the best discussion I'd found on the subject: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AreDesignPatternsMissingLanguageFeatu...