Design Patterns == weakness in language

[David Medlock]

renox wrote:
> 
> Bah, an over-simplistic article with great claims and little substance.
> 
> Some design pattern are caused by flaw in the original language, in 
> other language they will be invisible, that's quite obvious..
> 
> But claiming that *all* design pattern comes from language flaws as the 
> author imply??
> 
> Uh? Show me the proof: big claims need strong proofs!
> 
> And in the article, there is no such proof, not even a beginning:
> a waste of electrons.
> 
> Regards,
> RenoX

In sufficiently powerful language design patterns seem to become 
unnecessary:

http://www.norvig.com/design-patterns/

-DavidM