“Design Patterns” Aren't (2002)
The core points of this talk, as noted in the Addendum [0], is that &quot;we need to take a fresh look at Christopher Alexander&quot;.<p>Since that point has been established, it would make a phenomenal follow-up talk to take Alexander&#x27;s book, which is from the 1970s, and begin a discourse on how his ideas can be applied to modern software engineering and architecture. While the reader takes away from the slides that Alexander has some unique ideas that are probably useful, he&#x2F;she doesn&#x27;t come away with a good understanding of what they might be. (though if anyone knows of talks that discuss Pattern Languages, I&#x27;d love to see them!)<p>[0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;perl.plover.com&#x2F;yak&#x2F;design&#x2F;samples&#x2F;note.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;perl.plover.com&#x2F;yak&#x2F;design&#x2F;samples&#x2F;note.html</a>