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Most problems we encounter as programmers have been handled time and again by others in our community. Design patterns can provide us with the means to mine that wisdom. Once a pattern becomes a common currency, it enriches our language, making it easy to share design ideas and their consequences. Design patterns simply distill common problems, define tested solutions, and describe likely outcomes. They take up where the nuts-and-bolts how-to books end.
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Zandstra, M. (2004). What Are Design Patterns? Why Use Them?. In: PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0403-9_7
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