Sat May 14 18:52:07 GMT 2011 criticismSuggest use to take a fresh look of original "pattern language" - http://perl.plover.com/yak/design/ , in his opinions, it is more about separate design to difference groups than create reusable design. Some more... http://www.relevancellc.com[..]007/5/17/design-patterns-are-code-smells http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000899.html Some say pattern should be language feature ... http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000308.html Closely related, there are no golden rules and silver bullet, Design Pattern can help us in some design problem and provide some design suggestion. However, we need to know what it good for and bad for http://jchyip.blogspot.com/2008/01/gefn.html http://jchyip.blogspot.com[..]est-practice-vs-pattern-vs-standard.html http://jchyip.blogspot.com[..]ndard-approach-does-not-necessarily.html Use pattern in hello world, sample of over engineering: http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=33602&cid=3636102 (google search) (amazon search) second |