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Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond, Second Edition
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Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond, Second Edition

by Paul Clements, Felix Bachmann, Len Bass, David Garlan, James Ivers, Reed Little, Paulo Merson, Robert Nord, Judith Stafford
October 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
592 pages
16h 15m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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E. Epilogue: Using Views and Beyond with Other Approaches

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The word architecture goes back through Latin to the Greek for “master builder.” The ancients not only invented the word, they gave it its clearest and most comprehensive definition. According to Vitruvius—the Roman writer, whose Ten Books on Architecture is the only surviving ancient architectural treatise—architecture, is the union of “firmness, commodity, and delight”; it is, in other words, at once a structural, practical, and visual art. Without solidity, it is dangerous; without usefulness, ...

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