I spoke at an OOPSLA conference in the nineties and presented one of the first patterns. It was an object interaction to fulfill a task (in this case object to relational mapping).
I think you are dead on. Alexander described recognizable effects and their related configuration, not processes or assemblages defined by their internal typology.
Very interesting. This really resonates with me & I’ll be looking for those methods of guidance for agentic built systems as well.
You might enjoy Brad Weed’s latest essay which speaks to the topological nature of patterns: https://interplace.substack.com/p/what-the-world-points-to?r=8fury&utm_medium=ios
I spoke at an OOPSLA conference in the nineties and presented one of the first patterns. It was an object interaction to fulfill a task (in this case object to relational mapping).
I think you are dead on. Alexander described recognizable effects and their related configuration, not processes or assemblages defined by their internal typology.
Wow! You were watching software engineering history unfold!
It was a hell of a lot easier to understand back then!
The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does [Beer]. Are you overlooking emergent complexity?