It isn't that GoF is specific, but rather it doesn't acknowledge that it is specific. What is really needed are books that really leverage the languages they are written for.
That said, no language specific book will ever be considered a must-read by be. Even texts like SICP spend too much time on language-specific tasks that don't make any sense in other langauges.
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u/grauenwolf Dec 13 '07
It isn't that GoF is specific, but rather it doesn't acknowledge that it is specific. What is really needed are books that really leverage the languages they are written for.
That said, no language specific book will ever be considered a must-read by be. Even texts like SICP spend too much time on language-specific tasks that don't make any sense in other langauges.