General talk about software patterns

[Joseph Bergin <jbergin AT pace.edu>]

Yes, a big problem, but hard to tackle. Shepherding and workshopping do a 
pretty good job, since many of the participants are from around the world. 
Perhaps those giving feedback should be sure to mention this when noticed. I 
just did this while shepherding a paper for guru-plop. In this case it was 
just the language used, but the advice itself, can be strongly culturally 
dependent. 

One person I know rejected Alexander altogether believing that they were just 
building "California-Mediteranian architecture." 

Joe

On Feb 19, 2013, at 9:30 AM, Christian Köppe wrote:

> I personally think that this is indeed one of the overlooked issues in most 
> published patterns; they (authors and patterns) assume that they are 
> culture-independent. 

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