December 2016
Intermediate to advanced
828 pages
27h 18m
English
CHAPTER 8
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Patterns and Anti-Patterns
In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.
—Christopher Alexander, architect and design theorist
There is an old saying that you shouldn’t try to reinvent the wheel, and honestly, in essence it is a very good saying. But with all such sayings, a modicum of common sense is required for its application. If everyone down through history took the saying literally, your car would ...
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