James O. Coplien, also known as Cope,[1] is a writer, lecturer, and researcher in the field of computer science.
[citation needed] Cope was a founding Member of Hillside Group with Kent Beck, Grady Booch, Ward Cunningham, Ralph Johnson, Ken Auer and Hal Hildebrand.
Together with Trygve Reenskaug, he was a principal in the design of the data, context and interaction (DCI) paradigm.
Books he has written, co-written or edited include: His early work on C++ idioms was one of the three primary sources of the popular Design Patterns.
[3][4] In Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development book he co-presented an alternative version of Conway's law.