11. Using Styles and Patterns
Historically, the software industry hasn’t had a very good record of learning from experience. Software designers often ignore existing, proven design solutions and instead develop their own solutions to complex problems. The same can also be said of software architects, who can end up creating new system designs for very familiar challenges.
One of the reasons for this state of affairs used to be the lack of easily accessible, standard solutions for common software architecture and design problems. However, during the 1990s, the design patterns movement emerged with the aim of addressing this problem. Proponents of software patterns, inspired by Christopher Alexander’s work on patterns for building architecture, ...
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