Hillside Group

1993년 8월, KentBeck과 GradyBooch는 콜로라도의 한 산에서 열린 리트릿을 후원한다. 그 모임은 소프트웨어 패턴의 기초를 마련하기 위한 것이었다. WardCunningham, RalphJohnson, KenAuer, HalHildebrand, GradyBooch, KentBeck, JimCoplien은 ChristopherAlexander의 아이디어와 자신들의 경험을 바탕으로 객체와 패턴을 결합시키려고 노력했다.

In August of 1993, KentBeck and GradyBooch sponsored a mountain retreat in Colorado where a group converged on foundations for software patterns. WardCunningham, RalphJohnson, KenAuer, Hal Hildebrand, GradyBooch, KentBeck and JimCoplien struggled with ChristopherAlexander's ideas and our own experiences to forge a marriage of objects and patterns. The Group agreed that we were ready to build on ErichGamma's foundation work studying object-oriented patterns, to use PatternLanguage in a generative way in the sense that ChristopherAlexander uses PatternLanguage for urban planning and building architecture. We then used the term generative to mean creational to distinguish them from Gamma patterns that captured observations. The Group was meeting on the side of a hill when all this occurred, hence the name.[3]

Since then, the Hillside Group has been incorporated as an educational non-profit. It currently sponsors and helps run various PLoP (Pattern Languages of Programming) conferences. The Hillside Group has also been responsible for getting the Pattern Languages Of Program Design series of books put together and published. [5]

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