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a pattern language has vocabulary, syntax, and grammar - but a pattern language applies to some complex activity other than communication. In pattern languages for design, the parts break down in this way:
* The language description - the vocabulary - is a collection of named, described solutions to problems in a field of interest. These are called design patterns. So, for example, the language for architecture describes items like: settlements,

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