quote:SabreMan
Read some books! This is getting really tiresome.
What books would you suggest? I'm sorry it's getting tiresome, I feel like I'm pulling teeth to get relevant information from you. The books that I have read about patterns focus on the solution, not on the problem. You've read some books on the subject I haven't, so what are their examples? Are any of them about software? or at least engineering?
I thought the focus on the solution was one of the things that Alexander's works was know for - 'The Street Cafe' is a metaphor for the solution. It helps solve the problem of creating 'an identifiable neighborhood etc...' while balancing architectural desires such as a 'gradient of privacy' while dining. If you focus on one specific problem at a time, it's hard to balance the design pressures and find the optimum solution for all of the issues. Focusing on the problem is how software has been written until the pattern movement…
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I do hope nobody takes your flippantry as being anything like an authoritative account. Personally, I don't know the origin, and I wouldn't offer my own opinionated guesswork in place of a reliable etymology.
Perhaps my explanation isn't 100% perfect, but it is essentially the reason why. The PC movement is to replace "he" with the grammatically correct "he or she" and "his" with "his or her" for non-sexist writing. This is too awkward for casual speech and text so we use a mixture of he and she as not to show sexist preference. While I'll be the first to admit that I am often flippant, I do not see how any thing I said about this was derogatory. When I said 'highly intellectual' I did not mean elitist, I meant people involved with highly-abstract topics. For whatever speculative reasons, the use is common in philosophy and popular in computer science (and I’ve heard it some math lectures, though rarely if ever in other fields).
[edited by - Magmai Kai Holmlor on April 24, 2003 7:33:24 PM]
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