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The Hillside Group is a
nonprofit corporation dedicated to improving human communication about computers by
encouraging people to codify common programming and design practice. We sponsor
conferences (like PLoP,
EuroPLoP, Using Patterns,
ChiliPLoP,
Mensore
PLoP, KoalaPLoP,
Viking PLoP,
ScrumPLoP
and
SugarLoafPLoP)
and also host the
patterns home page.
The world of software
development is a mixture of concerns ranging from correctness and execution efficiency to
the beauty and elegance of the architecture, design, and internal structure of systems to
the overall aesthetics, usability, and humanity of systems and all the way to the
organization of development and the manner of software production. This spectrum can be
broken down into those parts that are necessary for the correct and efficient functioning
and creation of systems on one hand and what makes those systems and organizations for
making them "good," aesthetically pleasing, and humane on the other. That is, at
one extreme are concerns about the minimal requirements to get the job done and at the
other are concerns about the qualities of the software and the humanity of the process
that produced it.
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