The thesis makes a main explanation of the art of design in the preceding period of the twenty century in Shanghai, which mainly includes the condition of its development 、organizations of the art of design、the education of the art of design、style of the art of design and the influence of people’s aesthetical tendency to the art of design.
The experience in designing large software systems shows that even the definitions of a programming language can be seen as the application of specific implementation and formalization techniques rather than as the result of a ?designing art?.