I've seen this meme come out of programmers more and more and it just doesn't seem accurate.  The statement goes something like this, "Design Patterns were only useful because C++ (or Java) was so broken.

Steve Rowe brings up the fact that most design patterns were thought of in the Smalltalk community. The big bad ass where many things OOP and Dynamic were created first.

I hate to sound like a old man telling kids to get off his lawn but the advocation that dynamic languages FIX the need for the Gang of Four design patterns seems so teenagerish.

Does Python really know everything and can do everything better? Well, it can write easy test cases.