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Review title: Why explain?
Product review: After going over this book I had this rhetoric question: `Why did the original need so much "explaining"?` Of course Design Patterns by Gamma, Helm, Johnson and Vlissides is not a light reading and I had to go a couple of times (and still do) over certain aspects in order to get a good understanding. And still the substance and depth of the "original" are incomparable with present material. I admit, the book under review presentation is clear, but the concepts are fairly basic while the examples did not give me the most "natural" feeling.
