gang bang
= G =
garbage collect
Gang of Four n.
(also abbreviated `GOF')
[prob. a play on the `Gang Of Four' who briefly ran Communist China
after the death of Mao T'se Tung] Describes either the authors or the
book "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented
Software" published in 1995 by Addison-Wesley (ISBN 0-201-63361-2).
The authors forming the Gang Of Four are Erich Gamma, Richard Helm,
Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides. They are also sometimes referred
to as `Gamma et. al.' The authors state at
http://www.hillside.net/patterns/DPBook/GOF.html "Why are we
... called this? Who knows. Somehow the name just stuck." The term
is also used to describe any of the design patterns that are used
in the book, referring to the patterns within it as `Gang Of Four
Patterns.'
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.