Capturing Elements of Reusable Design
A pattern for increased monitoring for intellectual property theft by departing insiders
Title of (an article in the Proceedings of the 18th Conference of Pattern Languages of Programs — https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2579157), PLoP'11
Christopher Alexander, while evidently seminal in the field of built architecture, seems pretty lazy as architects go. Why? Because rather than designing a building or even a town himself, he expects the people who will live, work, shop, and play there to do that for him, and even to build its prototype.
In fact, this has little to do with laziness; it's because he believes that they are the best people to do the designing as they are the people who best know the uses to which the structure will be put and the problems it will solve. What does he know about that? Not much; what he knows is the expertise architects have gained in solving problems that crop up when designing and constructing towns and buildings...
