From: fmatthew5876@googlemail.com   
      
   > Are design patterns really useful, even to the journeyman?   
   >   
      
   I think they are useful in that they might introduce you to new ways of   
   thinking about and solving certain classes of problems. I've found a couple   
   times when someone starts talking about some fancy new design pattern by name   
   that once I learned what it was, I'd already used a variant of it previously   
   without knowing.   
      
   The danger of course is learning a design pattern, accepting it as gospel   
   truth, and then trying to stuff all of your square code into the round pattern.   
   Perhaps design pattern books should explain this caveat in chapter 1.   
      
   One could also argue its useful to have a common vocabulary. If I'm trying to   
   describe a design to you and I tell you I'm using pattern X, you already have a   
   concept of what that means before we go into the details.   
      
      
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