Just returned from Seattle where I had a chance to read the entire book:
"The Timeless Way of Building" by Christopher Alexander (1979)
Here is a quote that validates the Rebol concept of Dialects:
(realize that he is a architect of buildings, and
language = design pattern language = dialect,
_not_ computer language...)
"So, the real work of any process of design
lies in this task of making up the language (dialect),
from which you can later
generate the one particular design."
"You must make the language first,
because it is the structure and the
content of the language which determine the design."
Amazing how similar this is,
Steve Shireman
