General talk about software patterns

["Richard P. Gabriel" <rpg AT dreamsongs.com>]

There will be a related paper at OOPSLA this year:

http://www.oopsla.org/2005/ShowEvent.do?id=29

which will talk about automatically finding things a little more 
primitive than patterns and drawing some conclusions from that. The 
methodology *might* be applicable at least in part to answering the 
overall question posed of the distribution of pattern usage in real 
systems.

(The authors of the paper are not patterns fans, but the paper was 
shepherded (by Kent Beck) to eliminate problems related to that.)

                        -rpg-