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by leoc 11mo ago
Apparently ( https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-importance-of-Christopher-Alexander-s-work-for-system-software-designers/answer/Alan-Kay-11?__nsrc__=4&__snid3__=91300884283&comment_id=489204867&comment_type=2 https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-importance-of-Christopher-... ) one of the things that originally got computer scientists interested in Christopher Alexander was the original Whole Earth Catalog promoting his Notes on the Synthesis of Form.
- adastra22 11mo agoI have never heard of Christopher Alexander (and Quora is unusable). Who is he?
- leoc 11mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander An architect best known for being a design theorist: maybe a(n interesting) crank? In 1977 he wrote A Pattern Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language which was the inspiration for the original CS Design Patterns book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns .
- xyzzy3000 11mo agoAn influential architect whose ideas form the basis of 'design patterns' in software development.