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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Gang of Four</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="gang-bang.html" title="gang bang"/><link rel="next" href="garbage-collect.html" title="garbage collect"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Gang of Four</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gang-bang.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="garbage-collect.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Gang-of-Four"/><dt xmlns="" id="Gang-of-Four"><b>Gang of Four</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> (also abbreviated <span class="firstterm">GOF</span>)
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[prob. a play on the ‘Gang Of Four’ who briefly ran Communist
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China after the death of Mao] Describes either the authors or the book
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<i class="citetitle">Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented
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Software</i> published in 1995 by Addison-Wesley (ISBN
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0-201-63361-2). The authors forming the Gang Of Four are Erich Gamma,
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Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides. They are also sometimes
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referred to as ‘Gamma et. al.’ The authors state at <a href="http://www.hillside.net/patterns/DPBook/GOF.html" target="_top">http://www.hillside.net/patterns/DPBook/GOF.html</a>
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“<span class="quote">Why are we ... called this? Who knows. Somehow the name just
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stuck.</span>” The term is also used to describe any of the design patterns
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that are used in the book, referring to the patterns within it as
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‘Gang Of Four Patterns.’</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gang-bang.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="garbage-collect.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gang bang </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> garbage collect</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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