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by Gys 2146 days ago
In case you also read the comments first and wonder who this is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander

> Christopher Wolfgang Alexander is a widely influential British-American architect and design theorist, and currently emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
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munificent 2146 days ago
More relevant to the HN crowd, he invented the general concept of a "pattern language" and described a set of patterns for architecture.

The Gang of Four took that concept, hunted down a set of patterns they found in software architecture, and wrote "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" based on it, one of the most famous books in programming.

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