Gang Of Four

The authors of the DesignPatternsBook came to be known as the "Gang of Four." The name of the book ("Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software") is too long for e-mail, so "book by the gang of four" became a shorthand name for it. After all, it isn't the ONLY book on patterns. That got shortened to "GOF book", which is pretty cryptic the first time you hear it.

• ErichGamma
• RichardHelm
• RalphJohnson
• JohnVlissides

"Gang of Four" was originally a reference to certain people of note in Maoist China. Both the band and the authors of the DesignPatternsBook are named after them.

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