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Notes on The Timeless Way of Building | Irrational Exuberance

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Some months ago, a friend recommend Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language. I hadn’t heard of it before, and as I started poking around I realized that this was the second of a series of three books, and recommendations generally pointed me to start instead with The Timeless Way of Building.

Some months ago, a friend recommended Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language . I hadn't heard of it before, and as I started poking around I realized that this was the second of a series of three books, and recommendations generally pointed me to start instead with The Timeless Way of Building . Delving a bit further into the context surrounding these books, I was surprised to learn that in addition to being an influential work on architecture, the genesis of the software design patterns community was from Alexander's works as well. Stylistically the book ventured a bit too far into mystic

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