The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion

The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion

This is a GREAT book, very readable and also dense with content, one that even experienced Smalltalkers like myself will benefit from. - Dave Collins, author of Designing Object-Oriented User Interfaces This book adds value to the Gang of Four Design Patterns book. . . . The authors have found a good way to blend the Smalltalk discussions with the GoF pattern descriptions. - Erich Gamma, coauthor of Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software When the classic book Design Patterns was first published in 1994, the landscape of object-oriented software engineering was forever changed. The 23 patterns contained in the seminal work vastly improved the discipline of object-oriented software design. That book, and the concepts it presented, allowed software professionals to solve specific design problems by reusing successful designs. Design Patterns was a gift to the world of software development, yet Smalltalk programmers could not take full advantage of the books popular ideas because most of the original patterns were presented from a C++ perspective. In The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion, the classic work has been tailored and enhanced to address the speci