Design Patterns are not crap. They just shouldn’t be used by people in the way they are.
They are treated by most developers as recipes: “I need a to implement a xxx pattern”.
But they aren’t. Instead, they are a naming system. Once you’ve written code, you can say “oh, look, that’s like a strategy pattern.” You could then refer to it as such as a short cut when talking with other developers.
Next time you meet an architect, ask them about Christopher Alexander or A Pattern Language. I’ve never met one you knows what I’m talking about…
