Design patterns are mostly cultural. They're about getting people to speak the same language about designing a system. In languages like C++ and Java, the culture is needed to overcome the paltry capability of those languages to re/compose well. Other language communities don't need this.
If you read Alexander's interviews in Stuart Brand's How Buildings Learn you'll see he's mostly concerned with how to connect people directly with the problems his buildings and urban planning are trying to solve. It's highly cultural. He rails against what he calls "magazine architecture" where buildings are designed mostly to photograph well, their inhabitants's problems with the buildings are an afterthought. Sounds familiar?
If you read Alexander's interviews in Stuart Brand's How Buildings Learn you'll see he's mostly concerned with how to connect people directly with the problems his buildings and urban planning are trying to solve. It's highly cultural. He rails against what he calls "magazine architecture" where buildings are designed mostly to photograph well, their inhabitants's problems with the buildings are an afterthought. Sounds familiar?