best book on design patterns?

[lawrence]

This has nothing to do with PHP, but I ask it here since I do most of
my programming in PHP. What do you think the best book on design
patterns is? The book can be written for C or Java or in the abstract.
What was useful to you and why?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

lawrence wrote:

> This has nothing to do with PHP, but I ask it here since I do most of
> my programming in PHP. What do you think the best book on design
> patterns is?
> The book can be written for C or Java or in the abstract.
> What was useful to you and why?

This question should go to comp.object, I think...
xposted, and fu2 positionned...

BTW, C might not be the most obvious language for OOP and patterns !-)

<OT in c.l.php>
"Design Patterns, elements of reusable object oriented software",
Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides
Addison-Wesley

This book is the first one about patterns, and is still the reference.
BTW, it's also a good book about good OO design in general.
</OT>

<php>
For patterns implementations in php, you may want to have a look at
phpPatterns :
[url]http://www.phppatterns.com[/url]
</php>

HTH
Bruno

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