Moving from Architectural to Software Design Patterns
What does all of this architectural stuff have to do with us software developers?
Well, in the early 1990s some smart developers happened upon Alexander's work in patterns. They wondered if what was true for architectural patterns would also be true for software design.[5]
[5] The ESPRIT consortium in Europe was doing similar work in the 1980s. ESPRIT's Project 1098 and Project 5248 developed a pattern-based design methodology called Knowledge Analysis and Design Support (KADS) that was focused on patterns for creating expert systems. Karen Gardner extended the KADS analysis patterns to object orientation. See Gardner, K., Cognitive Patterns: Problem-Solving Frameworks for Object Technology ...
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