Computer Science · Software Engineering
A topic within Software Engineering, itself one of 15 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.
2 works
Peter Norvig
Argues that many of the Gang of Four's design patterns are workarounds for missing language features, and that dynamic, higher-order languages implement several of them invisibly.
Richard P. Gabriel
Uses Christopher Alexander's architectural theory of patterns and 'habitability' to argue that software quality comes from qualities code has for the humans who must live in it, not from correctness alone.