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They contain an incomplete and informally written history of programming ideas. It's a group project. It's an experiment. It's a gathering of spooky people. It's the first and largest WikiWikiWeb, known simply as wiki.

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By the way, this site generates its pages from a database. You'll see various kinds of links. These are some startingpoints...

PortlandPatternRepository -- another page in this repository.
PrincetonPatternRefloctory? -- a proposed page for this repository.
http://c2.com/ppr/ -- a page somewhere else on the web.

There isn't really a Princeton Pattern Refloctory. That is just a made-up name that shows how this site handles dangling references. (Don't define it, or you will wreck this example.) Read MoreAboutMechanics for details.

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