Is this pattern stuff a cult? Some of our colleagues thought so as a group of us met every Monday to study Alexander's TheTimelessWayOfBuilding. (Monday School, get it?)
School attendees were:
Roxie and Ward summarized their findings as The Vision of the Pattern Language of Programs [http://c2.com/doc/oopsla88.html] which they submitted to the OOPSLA-88 workshop on the Specification and Design for Object-Oriented Programming. Sept. 26, 1988