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- From: ell@access1.digex.net (Ell)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.object,comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
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- Date: 19 Apr 1996 17:10:34 GMT
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- Dellis Hines (dellish@datalytics.com) wrote:
- : Ell wrote:
- : > Kazimir Kylheku (c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca) wrote:
- : >:I don't particularly subscribe to the view
- : >:that there ought to be a naive correspondence between software entities and
- : >:some ``real world'' entities, except when it's utterly convenient, and on
- : >:the third Wednesday of every month.
- :
- : >:The whole thing is a little childish and naive when taken too far.
-
- : > You know what is a real crime is the time and money wasted by those who
- : > ignore and downplay OOA.
-
- : I believe that you should go back and read the post you're replying to,
- : where the writer clearly
- : states 'when taken TOO far'.
-
- But before that the writer says there shouldn't be "naive correspondence
- between software entites and some ``real world'' entites, except when it's
- utterly convenient...". I don't know what the writer means by naive, but
- I ADAMANTLY DISAGREE that there shouldn't be a correspondence between the
- real world of the applciation area and the central model classes. As
- Rumbaugh says, the analysis model should project through the other layers
- of the design (March/April '96 JOOP).
-
- Elliott
-