Apparently ( https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-importance-of-Christopher-... ) one of the things that originally got computer scientists interested in Christopher Alexander was the original Whole Earth Catalog promoting his Notes on the Synthesis of Form.

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adastra22 a day ago | parent [-]

I have never heard of Christopher Alexander (and Quora is unusable). Who is he?

	▲	leoc a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander An architect best known for being a design theorist: maybe a(n interesting) crank? In 1977 he wrote A Pattern Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language which was the inspiration for the original CS Design Patterns book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns .
	▲	xyzzy3000 a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		An influential architect whose ideas form the basis of 'design patterns' in software development.