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On 17 September 1987 programmer [[Ward Cunningham|Howard G. (Ward) Cunningham]], then with [[Tektronix]], and [[Apple Computer]]'s [[Kent Beck]] co-published the paper ''[http://c2.com/doc/oopsla87.html Using Pattern Languages for Object-Oriented Programs]''. This paper about programming patterns was inspired by [[Christopher Alexander]]'s architectural concept of "patterns". It was written for the [[1987]] [[OOPSLA]] programming conference organized by the [[Association for Computing Machinery]]. Cunningham's and Beck's idea became popular among programmers because it helped them exchange programming ideas in a format that is easy to understand.

Cunningham & Cunningham, the programming consultancy which would eventually host the PPR on its Internet ___domain, was incorporated in [[Salem, Oregon]] on 1 November 1991 and is named after Ward and his wife [[Karen R. Cunningham]], a mathematician, school teacher and school director. Cunningham & Cunningham registered their Internet ___domain c2.com on 23 October 1994.

Ward created the ''Portland Pattern Repository'' on c2.com as a means to help [[object-oriented programming|object-oriented programmers]] publish their computer programming patterns by submitting them to him. Some of those programmers attended the OOPSLA and [http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/~plop/ PLoP] conferences about object-oriented programming, posting their ideas on the PPR and exchanging e-mail messages with Ward.