My father sent this wonderful interview to me with the author's of the book "Design Patterns". I still find that it introducing people who aren't software engineers to the concept of web architecture, design patterns and software development workflow that it still takes a bit for someone to see how someone could appreciate the design and elegance behind a particular architecture.
In the words of Ralph Johnson:
Designing software is hard. That is what makes it so fun! People who are good at designing software enjoy solving hard problems, at bringing order to chaos, at overcoming difficulties. Things that used to be hard are now easy, but we have moved on to working on problems that would have been impossible 20 years ago. OO programming helps but does not eliminate the difficulty of design.
I always assumed that Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language was some source of inspiration for these gentlemen and I was surprised to find out that it wasn't in fact the case.
Interview with the Gang of Four
by jon on October 25, 2009
My father sent this wonderful interview to me with the author's of the book "Design Patterns". I still find that it introducing people who aren't software engineers to the concept of web architecture, design patterns and software development workflow that it still takes a bit for someone to see how someone could appreciate the design and elegance behind a particular architecture.
In the words of Ralph Johnson:
I always assumed that Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language was some source of inspiration for these gentlemen and I was surprised to find out that it wasn't in fact the case.
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