Meta Discussion Criteria Protocol
I'm faced with a problem with one of my papers this year. One of the new categories of papers allowable at this years PLoP was "metadiscussion" about the pattern form or categorization.

While the previous points from Dirk about Technical writing apply (and I've been applying them in my shepherding) the remainder do not apply to papers about patterns (as opposed to papers OF patterns).

Does anyone have any suggestions? Some of my thoughts were:

  • Will the average joe programmer interested in patterns find this interesting and/or useful?
  • Is the contribution new or something rehashed over many times? (aha! Novelty is good only when speaking of patterns, not in patterns themselves)
  • Can you imagine someone caring about this topic five years from now?

KyleBrown, June 1996.

 
Last edited June 27, 1996
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