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John Matthew Vlissides (August 2, 1961 - 24 November 2005) was a software scientist known mainly as one of the four authors (referred to as the Gang of Four) of the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Vlissides humbly called himself "#4 of the Gang of Four and wouldn't have it any other way."