[antlr-interest] what's in a name?

[Graham Wideman]

At 8/28/2009 09:16 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
>On 28/08/2009, at 6:25 AM, Sam Barnett-Cormack wrote:
>> you'd hardly be the first to port the idea to
>> another domain.
>
>Someone's even done it with Architecture (he uses the term to refer to  
>buildings, not computer systems too -- doubly confusing!)

You are likely refering to "A Pattern Language" by Christopher Alexander and co, 1977. (A lovely book in my opinion!)  This is the book that started this usage of the word "pattern". So any confusion is attributable to the Johnny-come-lately software folks :-).

-- Graham