Erich Gamma Quotes

Switzerland, Computer Scientist
March 13, 1961

Erich Gamma is a Swiss computer scientist and co-author of the influential software engineering textbook, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. He co-wrote the JUnit software testing framework with Kent Beck and led the design of the Eclipse platform's Java Development Tools . He also worked on the IBM Rational Jazz project.

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Since changing interfaces breaks clients you should consider them as immutable once you've published them.

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Provide an interface for creating families of related or dependent objects without specifying their concrete classes.

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Design patterns should not be applied indiscriminately. Often they achieve flexibility and variability by introducing additional levels of indirection, and that can complicate a design and/or cost you some performance. A design pattern should only be applied when the flexibility it affords is actually needed.

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A design that doesn’t take change into account risks major redesign in the future.

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- Future
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Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.

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- Design
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- Pattern