My impression was that design patterns are just shared vocabulary, not something to aspire to use (other than realizing there was an existing "word" that would succinctly describe your jumbled spaghetti sentence and using that instead).
Edit: I've been wanting to read A Pattern Language for a while, but this snippet from Amazon made me chuckle. If I didn't know better, I would have given it a 50/50 shot of being from APL or GoF!
>The elements of this language are entities called patterns. Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice.
Edit: I've been wanting to read A Pattern Language for a while, but this snippet from Amazon made me chuckle. If I didn't know better, I would have given it a 50/50 shot of being from APL or GoF!
>The elements of this language are entities called patterns. Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice.