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- From: jcrw@fmg.bt.co.uk (Jeremy Wilson)
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- Subject: Re: metamodels, metalanguages, templates, domain models ...
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 09:43:15 GMT
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- Mike J. Sangrey (mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us) wrote:
- : I've been reading Yourdon's book: "The Decline and Fall of the
- : American Programmer," and in that book he brings up meta-languages.
- : He gives an illustration from a three volume work about Architecture
- : (which I don't believe to be computer architecture, but about
- : buildings, villages, etc.) The work suggests that as a technology
- : matures, it develops a set of pattern languages that are used because
- : they provide simple, elegant, efficient solutions to the problem
- : domain. While you drive down the road, you'll notice certain
- : architectural patterns, repeated again and again. Rectangles are
- : frequently 2 times longer than they are wide; bricks for example.
- : These patterns work, both to the eye as well as functionally. Up here
- : in the north east (Penna.) we have porches on the front of most
- : houses. That pattern serves many functions and does so efficiently,
- : and, many times, rather elegantly.
-
- There is an article by Peter Coad that might be of interest in this context.
-
- Object Oriented Patterns
- Sept 1992 Vol 35 No.9 Communications of the ACM
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