[P2P-F] [P2P-URBANISM WA] relation between patterns in different fields?

[Federico Mena Quintero]

On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 09:49 +0100, Michael Mehaffy wrote:

> 
> Yes, "design patterns" is Alexander's pattern language applied to
> software.  (This writer mistakenly applies it more generically to
> patterns as in pattern books, which was only one aspect of Alexander's
> (and the software engineers') thinking - and not the most crucial
> aspect, which was the network logic.

By the way, a *great* resource on Alexander's thinking applied to
software is Richard Gabriel's book, "Patterns of Software":

http://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf

Richard Gabriel has a good number of very interesting books and articles
in that web site - including his technique of analysis of poetry based
on Alexander's 15 properties of life (!).

I heartily recommend reading his works to anyone interested in
Alexander's thinking.

  Federico