Patterns Ready for the Real World?: Introduction

Posted July 31, 2000 | |

One of the most popular concepts within the object-oriented development community is that of patterns. Though patterns never became a mainstream practice in the 1990s, they were constantly being discussed and debated in books and articles, as well as OO conferences such as OOPSLA.

About The Author
Ed Yourdon
Ed Yourdon was cofounder, with Karen Coburn, of Cutter Consortium. Ed served as Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, and Founding Editor and Editor Emeritus of the Cutter IT Journal. He chaired Cutter's Summit for many years. Mr. Yourdon is widely known as the lead developer of the structured analysis/design methods of the 1970s. He was a codeveloper of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of object-oriented (OO) analysis/design and the… Read More
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