General talk about software patterns

[Eric Eide <eeide AT cs.utah.edu>]

Roy Bonney writes:

        Roy> One thing that has always been a curious question for me, myself
        Roy> coming from a mathematical background, is are the Gof4 set of
        Roy> patterns all necessary (I think possibly) and are they 
sufficient?

I'm not sure that I can answer your question directly, but I think that the
following book is related to the questions you are asking:

        Jason McC. Smith.  Elemental Design Patterns.  Addison-Wesley
        Professional, 2012.

The (abbreviated) summary from Amazon:

        > After fifteen years, the field of design patterns is still missing a
        > critical element: a foundation.  [...]  Smith introduces a
        > foundational layer of patterns terminology: a collection of core
        > patterns that can't be decomposed further.  He presents these
        > underlying basic concepts of programming clearly and concisely, in
        > the same format as the classic "Gang of Four" patterns - thereby
        > offering a taxonomy that virtually any developer can understand and
        > apply.

Eric.

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