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Gang of Four
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n. (also abbreviated GOF ) [prob. a play on the Gang Of Four who briefly ran
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Communist China after the death of Mao] Describes either the authors or the
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book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
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published in 1995 by Addison-Wesley (ISBN 0-201-63361-2). The authors
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forming the Gang Of Four are Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and
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John Vlissides. They are also sometimes referred to as Gamma et. al. The
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authors state at http://www.hillside.net/patterns/DPBook/GOF.html Why are
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we. .. called this? Who knows. Somehow the name just stuck. The term is also
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used to describe any of the design patterns that are used in the book,
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referring to the patterns within it as Gang Of Four Patterns.
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