Several. I've not worked in such an environment myself, but I've had colleagues who have; workplaces where every design is permitted only to use concepts from the big book of patterns and any situation to which they are inappropriate is nonetheless solved (badly) with that big book of patterns.
Can you name any of these workplaces?
I last worked with him when I was working for a UK offshoot of a US Defence company. This would have been somewhere around... six years ago, I guess.
I suppose I could try to dig out his contact details and ask him, but I won't. So the short answer is no, I can't name that company. Got a feeling it was something involving printing, or imaging.
I also cannot name any of the companies that any of my current colleagues have previously worked at. Is everyone else keeping track of where all their colleagues and ex-colleagues have worked? Wouldn't be surprised. I don't keep track of any of that. I'm not even on the facebook.
Shame, I was hoping to avoid them. I do know where quite a few people I have worked with have worked previously, purely because this kind of thing can come up in discussion and my memory sometimes functions.
>I'm not even on the facebook.
Congratulations. I've managed to never be on it either.
Sure there might be a group of not too well-informed/skilled people religously believing patterns must be used whenever even remotely possible and not using patterns is bad, mkay, but I think (hope?) the group considering them as just another tool in the toolbox, used when appropriate but not otherwise, is larger.