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Mike Champion wrote: > ... > > I think that's a good list. It reminds me of how URLs, HTTP, and HTML > -- three relatively uninteresting designs on their own, but with > great "emergent properties" together -- formed the foundation for the Web. Anyone who met Tim B-L in 1989 would have called him an architecture astronaut just as they do today. http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html > ... > Joel Sapolsky's rhetorical excesses aside, I think his point needs > to be carefully considered. The architecture of products we use > year in/year out tend to evolve from the experiments of individual > craftpeople rather than being handed down by the Intelligent Designer. > "Architecture" can be the art and science of figuring out the > enduring principles of things that actually work, rather than > building abstractions that can live only in the rarefied air of > pure thought. I don't think that it is as simple as that. Some coherent architectures do emerge as a package from a single person or small team. Examples include the WIMP interface, the original Web, the Lisp programming language. Of course all of these have been incrementally extended since then. Paul Prescod
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