Big ball of Mud

Google Tech Talks
August 28, 2007

ABSTRACT

Brian Foote is a research computer scientist with nearly thirty years of professional programming experience. He cut his computational teeth in the realm of realtime scientific programming. The highly volatile requirements present in this domain led him to an interest in objects, reuse, software reuse, frameworks, components, and, ultimately, reflection and metalevel architectures. He is one of five people to have attended every OOPSLA conference since 1986.

He has also been active in the software patterns community, and edited Pattern Languages of Program Design 4. He was instrumental in gaining the conviction of the so-called Gang-of-Four (Design Patterns...

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I remember when this paper was published 10 years ago. I saw Brian give essentially the same presentation a few weeks after this at OOPSLA 2007. Good stuff.

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