{"id":1145,"date":"2005-11-28T11:27:50","date_gmt":"2005-11-28T16:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2020-01-03T14:50:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T19:50:31","slug":"john-vlissides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/28\/john-vlissides\/","title":{"rendered":"John Vlissides, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.research.ibm.com\/people\/v\/vlis\/\">John Vlissides<\/a>, co-author of the extremely influential <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0201633612\/\">Design Patterns<\/a> book (among many other publications), died Thursday after a long struggle with cancer (via <a href=\"http:\/\/lambda-the-ultimate.org\/node\/view\/1143\">Lambda<\/a>). The c2 wiki has a <a href=\"http:\/\/c2.com\/cgi\/wiki?JohnVlissides\">page of remembrances<\/a> from people who knew him.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nI read the GoF book in 1996 and thought it was a revelation. I&rsquo;ve since realized that much of the fuss was about breaking the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norvig.com\/design-patterns\/\">shackles of C++<\/a>. Yet it still had an enormous impact on the industry, and it deserves to be part of the canon because of the vocabulary it established.\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Vlissides, co-author of the extremely influential Design Patterns book (among many other publications), died Thursday after a long struggle with cancer (via Lambda). The c2 wiki has a page of remembrances from people who knew him. I read the GoF book in 1996 and thought it was a revelation. I&rsquo;ve since realized that much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-01-03T19:49:11Z","apple_news_api_id":"fda9cb32-3218-4e58-8df3-0fff0e37880f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-01-03T19:50:34Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A_anLMjIYTliN8w__DjeIDw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[326,27,1914,71,208],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-c-plus-plus","tag-craft","tag-design-patterns","tag-programming","tag-rip"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27775,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/27775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}