What's this site is all about?
This site's goal is
to explore the possibility of expanding the philosophical foundation of the Object Oriented Design methodology (assuming of course that there
is such a foundation…). We would like to show that the current philosophical concepts, underlying the
object-oriented design are not exclusive, and sometimes, replacing
them with other philosophical concepts, may assist us in
finding a solution to a software design problem.
We are basing our
exploration upon our own format of a Design Pattern, the familiar and
so-often-used software design utility. This new format, which we call a Philosophy-Based
Pattern, is consist of the following parts:
- Purpose – a short description of
the kind of design problems that the Philosophy-Based Pattern should cope with.
- Motivation – the motivation
definition, based on an example of a software design problem.
- Philosophical Background – a brief discussion about some of the insights that the world
of philosophy has gained regarding the problem at stake.
- Current Philosophy-Based Pattern – a description of the philosophical idea that functions as a
model for how things are done today.
- Suggested Philosophy-Based Pattern – a pattern suggesting an alternative philosophical idea to
become, in certain cases, the model for design solutions.
- Implementation Example – a demonstration of an implementation of the suggested Philosophy-Based
Pattern.
Following are some examples of the described philosophy-based
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