JimCoplien gave a talk on the
NatureOfOrder to the
ChicagoPatternsGroup in August of 1997.
BradAppleton took notes on this talk - about 8-10 pages worth - and made them available at
http://www.enteract.com/~bradapp/docs/NoNoO.html
Just so people know, this is simply the result of me transcribing notes from someone else talking. I wasn't always able to "keep up" very well, particularly during the description of said properties. Cope was moving through most of them pretty quickly and I did my best, but I don't want people to take the above as any kind of authoritative definition.
RichardGabriel has a much nicer set of notes and more extensive presentation on this stuff (I saw him give it at ChiliPLOP'98). --
BradAppleton