cry havoc

I have the same reaction to design patterns. All of them. My educational background focused very little on software engineering and there are pretty massive gaps in what I learned, so though I know about, say, waterfall methodology and use cases, any time someone talks about the Adapter Pattern, or the Factory Pattern, my brain sort of shuts down and refuses to engage in these mystical patterns. And of course they are just names for sensible ways of designing software and I use them all the time, unconsciously. And yet. I still have to kick my brain into admitting they exist. They sound so impressive and formal!