I was seriously disilusioned when I have learned that most of the design patterns make sense only in strongly-typed languages, and that the whole mess that is abstract factory can in, say, PHP be replaced with a simple
But then you realize, some people can only barely decipher what's printed on the pages, they consider it a bible, when it is in fact, a consequence of design compromises in pseudo-OOP langs like C++ and java.
I really really hate singletons, visitors, factories, and all the lot, but I'm glad I can understand the intent of these things.
I think being disillusioned with this book is a good stepping stone for devs, it felt like one to me.
I'm not sure I agree. I suspect the vast majority of them (including abstract factories) make loads of sense in most languages.. it's just that strongly typed languages make many of the patterns complicated enough to implement that they deserve a chapter's worth of description.
