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software_that_has_the_quality_without_a_name [2014/05/16 07:33]
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software_that_has_the_quality_without_a_name [2019/10/06 20:37]
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-====== Quintero, F. M. Software that has the Quality Without A Name. 2011 ====== 
  
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-//(This article contains the author'​s thought and is not structured as a research paper. Hence, the following is a paragraph taken from the article but not its actual abstract; the article does not have one.) 
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-So you can see the essence of design patterns: good, tested recipes that don't constrain your implementation in unnecessary ways. The patterns do not mandate a particular style, nor include superfluous decorations:​ the book doesn'​t tell you, "make this shape of flourishes in the handrails";​ instead it tells you, "a house should have its rooms placed such that sunlight enters them according to the time of the day in which they are most used - East for the bedrooms in the morning, West for the living room in the afternoon"​. 
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-//​Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc,​ 2014/​05/​16//​ 
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-This article describes the author'​s progress from casual observer to expert in design patterns through learning and using real-world architectural patterns. The author start by stating that he used to dismiss refactorings and design patterns as "​nothing that you could not discover yourself"​. Then, while renovating/​expanding his house, he started studying Alexander'​s patterns and "​became tremendously interested in [Alexander'​s work]"​. He realised that the patterns "do not mandate a particular style, nor include superfluous decorations"​ and they are an "​approach [to] design"​ with "good solutions [...] that wouldn'​t constraint [the] implementation unnecessarily"​. Moreover, the patterns "give [...] a vocabulary to talk about how things are constructed"​. 
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-From then on, the author introduces the idea of "​Quality without a name": "[a] thing or place has the quality without a name if it is comfortable,​ has evolved over time in its own terms, is free of inner contradictions,​ doesn'​t try to draw attention to itself, and seems to have archetypal qualities"​. Things that have the quality without a name seem to have 15 properties in common, according to Alexander'​s work. The author summarises these 15 properties: 
-  * Level of scale 
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