Virtually all well-structured music, music that pleases the ear and moves the spirit, is full of patterns. By comparing musical and software patterns, the author helps clarify the purposes and forms of patterns. Architectural and design patterns make software-intensive systems easier to understand and adapt to because of their regularity and simplicity.
Index Terms:
pattern, software pattern, architectural pattern, design pattern
Citation:
Grady Booch, "The Well-Tempered Architecture," IEEE Software, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 24-25, July/Aug. 2007, doi:10.1109/MS.2007.122