My research and teaching interests involve on the design of abstract devices such as legal arguments and computer programs. Over time, I have studied this topic through a variety of lenses, including AI, knowledge-based systems, software patterns, agile software development, and programming languages.
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I first became acquainted with Pat Conroy's work when, as a freshman in college, I watched The Great Santini as a requirement for one of my honors courses. This film struck me as both sad and hopeful. Since then, I have seen a couple of other movies adapted from his novels.
I recently found myself reading a few of Gregor Hohpe's blog posts and came across Design Patterns: More Than Meets The Eye . In it, Hohpe repeats a message that needs to be repeated every so often even now, twenty years after the publication of the GoF book: software patterns are fundamentally about human…