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I think Peter Norvig's quote "Design patterns are bug reports against your programming language" is a perfect fit for this situation.

I'd really like to see a reputable source for this statement. All I can find are people attributing that quote to Peter Norvig.

Looks like it's from a slide deck[0] (maybe a presentation) he did. I know it's not the exact quote, but he may have said it in a talk?

(slide 4) "What Are Design Patterns: To avoid limitations of implementation language"

Looks like the site is down now? Archive.org link for it: