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Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 08:41:00 -0400
Subject: Re: Design Pattern and Python: Any book recommendation? Your view?
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On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 8:28 AM, John Roth <johnroth1@gmail.com> wrote:
> The first is that if you use TDD (Test Driven Development) and
> refactor relentlessly to remove duplication, most of the basic design
> patterns will emerge naturally from the code as you work.

I agree, and there is a pretty good series of articles on
developerWorks that covers this:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-eaed2/index.html

The author used Java in this series, but as Ulrich mentioned, I feel
that design patterns (and emergent design) are "language-agnostic.".