Concept
Applying the term “architecture” to software systems was originally a metaphor referring to the classical field of the architecture of buildings. The term “software architecture” is used to denote three concepts:
- the high level structure of a software system
- the discipline of creating such a high level structure
- the documentation of this high level structure
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Famous quotes containing the word concept:
“The concept is interesting: to see, as though reflected
In streaming windowpanes, the look of others through
Their own eyes.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
“The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)