Pattern Languages - Why Are They Important?

patterns are a good idea because they allow you to better communicate software. They're really very useful if you want to understand certain domains a bit deeper than just understanding the API of Corbol or something like that. Second thing is reuse. We share experience, we share best practices and to a certain extent it evolved the field of software development. There's also the high goal of a software handbook, a software architecture handbook. Several times tried, never really achieved yet, but hopefully in the...