This week at LWN: Ghosts of Unix Past: a historical search for design patterns

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Nov 9, 2010 9:09 PM EDT
LWN.net; By Neil Brown
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The exploration of design patterns is importantly a historical search. It is possible to tell in the present that a particular approach to design or coding works adequately in a particular situation, but to identify patterns which repeatedly work, or repeatedly fail to work, a longer term or historical perspective is needed. We benefit primarily from hindsight.

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