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James Robertson

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Patterns came from where?

Posted: Aug 3, 2003 9:27 AM

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Spotted in ComputerWorld:

"Patterns, which originated in the Java World, are bleeding into the .NET world." says Daniel Meznick of New Technology Inc.

Quick, someone buy him the GOF book!

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Laurent Bossavit

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Re: Patterns came from where?

Posted: Aug 3, 2003 3:34 PM

Well, yeah. Software is a young field with a short history, but still a history. (That is, short compared to human history; it's long enough compared to, say, my own age.)

And in the software business, the main thing we learn from history is that few people in the software business bother to learn from history.

The GoF book was published in 1994, and Java made its official debut in 1995; but Kent Beck had started working on patterns in 1987, four years before "Oak" was even a gleam in Gosling's eye.

Isaac Gouy

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Re: Patterns came from where?

Posted: Aug 3, 2003 4:08 PM

There are references in:

"A brief history of design patterns"
http://www.bell-labs.com/user/cope/Patterns/ICSE96/node3.html

(I usually forget that interesting work was being done in C++ as-well-as Smalltalk: Jim Coplien's Idioms, William Opdyke's work on Refactoring)

Pete Mitton

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Re: Patterns came from where?

Posted: Aug 4, 2003 5:14 AM

If you have the time at least take a look at Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language. An architectural book it emphasises the importance of understanding why some solutions can be successfull in a number of contexts. Software engineering's use of design patterns can be traced back to this book

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195019199/qid=1059998829/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_3/102-4965695-1320959?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Pete

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