'Design Patterns' Receives ACM SIGPLAN Award

bth writes "ACM's Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) recently awarded the 2005 Programming Languages Achievement Award to Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides (known as the 'Gang of Four') for their creation of 'Design Patterns' (the computer science book and the subfield at the intersection of programming languages and software engineering). The annual award recognizes an individual (or individuals) who has (have) made a significant and lasting contribution to the field of programming languages."

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Experience for the unexperienced

[dubbayu_d_40]

Common sense for the rest of us. It was a good idiot filter back in the day...

Re:As mentioned by Paul Graham

[shmlco]

I just can't help myself given that sentence. To quote, "Language bigots always think they're language is perfect."

Yes, language bigots always think THEY ARE language is perfect.