Thank you
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A Pattern Language is the most popular; most likely that somebody else at a cocktail party will have read it. Breezy read despite being 1100 pages. NotSoF is an adaptation of his PhD thesis; <300 pages but a lot of math. Also the oldest, and least magisterial tone.
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best way to read pattern language is to just start reading patterns at total random
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing @doriantaylor and
I'm not sure. Although I did pick a few here and there initially, you miss the whole hierarchy if reading at random, imo.
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Replying to @SimRodier @sarahdoingthing and
Thank you, everyone! I'll start with APL. My intuition is it'll become a bible for me. Dorian, loved yr "Toward a Theory of Design as Computation" article, esp "I'm fed up with working in an ecosystem that selects for garbage…"
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indeed, processes in which the whole artifact passes through several intermediate states—in which the current state in informed by the previous state and informs the following state—are pretty poorly understood in "the west"
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Replying to @doriantaylor @callumflack and
like we have concepts like "iteration" and "incrementalism" (which are distinct from one another) that *some* people understand but their bosses likely don't
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Replying to @doriantaylor @callumflack and
(moreover neither of those concepts are really as sophisticated as, say, embryogenesis)
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Iteration needed to lead to sophistication such as embryogenesis...?
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Replying to @SimRodier @callumflack and
"iteration" may or may not use the existing configuration to inform the next; "incrementalism" only attaches itself to some corner of the existing configuration (cf http://alistair.cockburn.us/Incremental+versus+iterative+development …)
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do you mean something like this?pic.twitter.com/TBHzo1AgzJ
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing @SimRodier and
you ever see the suspiciously CES-looking edition of On Growth and Form? https://archive.org/details/ongrowthform1917thom …pic.twitter.com/TuUpcPH3Eu
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