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Alexander's generative gap (the GoF shares Alexander's observational method but lacks his generative pattern ordering, requiring practitioners to supply composition sequencing the catalog omits) and the restraint principle (design expertise is constitutively about knowing what not to do, operationalized through negative heuristics) converge independently on judgment as the central competence of OO design — the catalog provides components but neither their composition order nor their application limits, making both positive selection and negative restraint essential practitioner capabilities that no formalization can eliminate.
Alexander's generative gap and the restraint principle independently establish judgment as irreducible central design competence
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