Design Patterns:
Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

General Information

Design Patterns is part of the Addison Wesley Professional Computing Series, a series that encompasses the state of the art in programming languages, operating systems, and network technology. Published October 1994 for $37.75, 416 pages, hardback, ISBN 0-201-63361-2.

For ordering information,

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The book may also be ordered (electronically) from

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• USA: Computer Literacy Bookstore
• USA: Quantum Books, Boston, MA.
• Germany: JF Lehmanns (site in German)
• Switzerland: Freihofer AG (site in German)

You can write to Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides care of Addison-Wesley, or send electronic mail to design-patterns@cs.uiuc.edu. You can also obtain soft-copy for the code in the Sample Code sections by sending the message ``send design pattern source'' to here.

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