From: Pascal Costanza
Subject: Patterns of Software
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 15:05:21 +0000
Message-ID: <costanza-2450C6.17052106082003@news.netcologne.de>

Dick Gabriel has published his excellent book "Patterns of Software" as 
a freely downloadable PDF file on his website http://www.dreamsongs.com/

This book also contains a fair amount of Lisp-related stuff.


Pascal

From: Donald Fisk
Subject: Re: Patterns of Software
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 14:01:37 +0000
Message-ID: <3F325BC1.AB428296@enterprise.net>

Pascal Costanza wrote:
> 
> Dick Gabriel has published his excellent book "Patterns of Software" as
> a freely downloadable PDF file on his website http://www.dreamsongs.com/
> 
> This book also contains a fair amount of Lisp-related stuff.

Excellent book.   It got me thinking hard about what makes
good software, what makes software good, and why is bad
software often more popular than good software; and then
realizing that the problems the software industry is facing
are more to do with people than with technologies.

I then followed it up by reading these books:

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig)

The Timeless Way of Building (Alexander)
A Pattern Language (Alexander)

These aren't directly Lisp-related but my intuition tells
me most Lispers will have either read them already or
will like them.

> Pascal

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