A study on immutability usage

[Jesse Phillips]

On Wednesday, 3 October 2012 at 08:17:49 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> If we were to study software now in the way Richard Helm, Erich 
> Gamma et
> al. did in the early 1990s would we find Proxy, Façade, 
> Builder, etc. of
> course we would since the feedback loop of people knowing about 
> them
> causes them to use them. So we now have a self-fulfilling 
> prophesy, and
> a design loop it is impossible to escape from.

So, you are saying that these examples are exhibiting the same 
problems because they are based on the same design?

I don't see how that would invalidate the results. That is, I 
don't see the relevance here.