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From: Andrew Simmons <andrew.simmons@monitorbm.co.nz>
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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:17:52 +1200
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 > The only advance that the ``patterns'' community made was inventing a
common nomenclature.

That, and inventing the "Singleton" design pattern, for use on those
occasions when someone's holding a gun to your head trying to force you to
create an unnecessary second instance of a class. I invented the
"Doppelganger" and "Trifecta" patterns, for when you need exactly two or
three instances of a class, but they've never caught on.