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Past, Present, and Future Trends in Software Patterns

The Growing Divide in the Patterns World

Joseph Bergin’s “Do the Right Thing”
Context:
Things are bad. Really bad.
Forces:
When things are bad it is really tough and bad things happen.
When things get better the bad stuff doesn’t happen any more and you feel good. Really good.
Solution:
Do the right thing. Make [...]

According to Jørgensen (2001), the most straightforward aspect of the code stage is represented by the astonishing rate of software developers contributing high quality code. Parallel review of such code constitutes the next stage. Paradoxically, even though more complex code would benefit from peer reviewing, it turns out that the simpler the code is, the [...]