'Design Patterns' Receives ACM SIGPLAN Award

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 30, 2005 @01:08PM from the good-idea-guys dept.

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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Okay, I'm gonna brag a little... by IronTek · 2005-07-30 14:20 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Ralph Johnson was my professor for two semester when I took UIUCs CS Senior Prject course the year before last. Pretty good guy! Very laid back.

Good book, too! Well earned, I'd say!