> No, naming them is not the main purpose, preserving and transmitting knowledge of what they are and what they are useful for, so that people aren't fofced to rediscover solutions to the same problems over and over again. [0] Naming is obviously important for that purpose, but isn't the main goal, but a means of supporting it.

Yes, this.

It's as if design patterns represents recurring patterns followed when designing something.

Wouldn't it be silly if architects spent their time shit-talking the silliness of referring to those holes added to walls to be covered by movable panes of glass as "windows"?

Somehow we're here seeing software developers do this sort of nonsense.