John Vlissides

John Matthew Vlissides
Occupation(s)Research Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Known forDesign Patterns, JUnit, Eclipse, Visual Studio Online "Monaco", Visual Studio Code
Awards2010 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award
2006 Dahl–Nygaard Prize[1]
WebsiteRalph E. Johnson at UIUC

John Matthew Vlissides (August 2, 1961 – November 24, 2005) was a software engineer known mainly as one of the four authors (referred to as the Gang of Four) of the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Vlissides referred to himself as "#4 of the Gang of Four and wouldn't have it any other way".[2]

  1. ^ "The AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize Winners For 2006". Aito. Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  2. ^ "John Vlissides".