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It's an unsubstantiated attack on patterns, software engineering, and licensing by Xah Lee, who used to pollute slashdot IIRC. He has nothing of interest to say.

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The author is well known for being a troll in some IRC channels as well.

Wow, that dude gets around... I recognized him as a troll from comp.lang.lisp

all over usenet, not just cll... Here's a fun old thread on c.l.python about him: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/t...

It is a very well substantiated attack on these ills.

Then can you explain what his reasons are for hating design patterns, Larry Wall and Unix to the point of calling them criminal?

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