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Re:One Way Smart Developers Make Bad Strategic Decisions by astrange on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @10:56PM (#30610769)
> He is a building architect that greatly influenced how people think about Object Oriented Programming (http://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/ieee.html)

The funny part about this speech is that he's just telling everyone they did it wrong, and Richard Gabriel agrees:

https://dreamsongs.com/Files/DoingItWrong.pdf

The point of his pattern language is to enable people to create their own architecture for their own needs. The point of OOP design patterns is to lock you in a prison of enterprise Java programming in the Kingdom of Nouns. Of course, I think everyone realized this like a decade ago.

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