Ralph Johnson

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Ralph E. Johnson (born October 7, 1955 ) is an American computer scientist . He is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and one of the authors of the computer science book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software .

Johnson was a pioneer of the Smalltalk programming language and continues to support it to this day. He has had various leading roles at the ACM Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages ​​and Applications conference OOPSLA , which he attends every year. He initiated the popular “OOPSLA Design Fest Workshop”.

In 2006 he received the Dahl Nygaard Prize .

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  • Erich Gamma , Richard Helm , Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides : Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software . Addison-Wesley, Reading MA et al. 1994, ISBN 0-201-63361-2 .
  • Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides: Design Pattern. Elements of reusable object-oriented software . Addison-Wesley, Bonn et al. 1996, ISBN 3-89319-950-0 .

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SURNAME Johnson, Ralph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johnson, Ralph E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1955