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The Gang of Four are the four co-authors of the book "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software," published in 1994. They are:

*[[Erich Gamma]]
*[[Richard Helm]]
*[[Ralph Johnson]]
*[[John Vlissides]]

The name of the book being too long for e-mail, it got shortened to "book by the gang of four," and then to "GOF book." ("Gang of Four" originally referred to a group of prominent Maoists accused in a show trial just after Mao's death.)

==Links==
*[[WikiWikiWeb]] page on GOF: http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?GangOfFour
*[[WikiWikiWeb]] page on GOF book:http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?DesignPatternsBook
*[[Hillside Group]] page: http://hillside.net/patterns/DPBook/GOF.html
*Ditto: http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/patterns/DPBook/GOF.html
*http://www.awl.com/cseng/titles/0-201-63361-2

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