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Re:Memories of Mozilla at 15 and Thoughts on Mozilla Research by gabriel on Thursday April 04, 2013 @03:24PM (#5494694)
There was a link: http://www.norvig.com/design-patterns/

I think you are looking for an exact quote but the link is to slides of a talk :(

I also agree with the sentiment, but you Architecture Astronaut will no doubt disagree.

You really can't just take a design pattern and apply it blindly across languages. I spend far too much of my time on a C# application where I have to deconstruct anti-patterns and make them more amenable to change.

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Re:Memories of Mozilla at 15 and Thoughts on Mozilla Research by pohl on Thursday April 04, 2013 @03:29PM (#5494720)
Yeah, I've shared that sentiment for a while now, but it was the turn of phrase that pulled me in, and I wanted to know whether to attribute it to Peter or Brendan.
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Re:Memories of Mozilla at 15 and Thoughts on Mozilla Research by BrendanEich on Sunday April 07, 2013 @05:53PM (#5508928)
I turned that particular phrase based on Peter Norvig's old Harlequin-era talk.

I've also heard people say that "design patterns are feature requests", or "the kindest form of feature request", but bug or feature -- what's the difference?

/be

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