Yes, a big problem, but hard to tackle. Shepherding and workshopping do a pretty good job, since many of the participants are from around the world. Perhaps those giving feedback should be sure to mention this when noticed. I just did this while shepherding a paper for guru-plop. In this case it was just the language used, but the advice itself, can be strongly culturally dependent.
One person I know rejected Alexander altogether believing that they were just building "California-Mediteranian architecture." Joe On Feb 19, 2013, at 9:30 AM, Christian Köppe wrote: > I personally think that this is indeed one of the overlooked issues in most > published patterns; they (authors and patterns) assume that they are > culture-independent. --- Joseph Bergin, Professor Emeritus in Residence Pace University, Computer Science, One Pace Plaza, NY NY 10038 EMAIL [email protected] HOMEPAGE http://csis.pace.edu/~bergin/ --- you shall above all things be glad and young. For if you’re young, whatever life you wear it will become you;and if you are glad whatever’s living will yourself become - - e. e. cummings _______________________________________________ patterns-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/patterns-discussion
