Software design pattern

He came into my office one day and he was writing 10,000 lines of code to simulate what's called the gene expression system, the means by which the digital code in DNA directs the construction of proteins and protein machines.

And he threw a book on my table, and it's, uh, called Design Patterns.

And he said, he, he said very dramatically, "I, I get a feeling someone figured this out before us."

[laughs]

I said, "What do you mean?" He said, "Well, a design pattern in computer science is a, an established means of storing and processing digital information.

And the, it's not just that there's digital code in DNA," which you're always talking about, Steve.

"It's that there, to process the information, there are all these established computer design patterns, uh, hierarchical filing of information, automated error correction." He went on, ticked all these things off-

Mm

The Eric Gemma, yeah.

The Eric Gemma, like the NL4, Design Patterns, JUnit, and Tender, and things like that, right? One of the greatest of all time, right? Yeah.

So he led the team in Zurich and I think they mostly focused on the Java developer experience in Eclipse, but also probably decided a lot of the underpinnings of that as well.

And then he moved over to Microsoft and I think some colleagues with him and they built the first versions and I think the first editor built on this HTML technology and then that grew into Visual Studio Code actually.