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From: Snowball <snowballinfo@rase.com>
Subject: Re: Interesting but sensitive topic to discuss (HELP: - OOP and CASE
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Date: 1996/11/06
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Paul_Gover@uk.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> In <32813322.41C6@kyebek3.kjist.ac.kr>, Dong Oh Kim <kdo@kyebek3.kjist.ac.kr> writes:
> > ...
> >Let me have your opinions about followings:
> >
> > 1. Is everything OK with existing oo development methods?
> >    If not, what are needed? and what stage should be enforced in the
> >    future,i.e,analysis or design,etc...?
> > ...
> 
> OK, here's my 2 cents: most OO development methods concentrate too much
> on objects and too little on classes.  This obstructs investigation of
> inheritance and polymorphism, making it hard to attain the benefits of OO.
> IMHO, in many cases this is because the design method derives from some
> entity modelling tool from before the days of OO, and entities are objects,
> not classes.
> 
> Paul Gover
> IBM Warwick Development Group
> Mumbling for myself, not IBM

I agree with Paul here, this is the reason I have been developing Snowball Rapid 
Rapid Systems Engineering Tool, a dedicated Smalltalk tool which I call a RASE 
(Rapid Systems Engineering) tool.
It looks like a CASE tool but it is radically different to one. The site is 
still under heavy construction but you can read about my ideas and approach in our 
web pages http://www.rase.com/ and http://www.rase.com/snowball/

Tansel Ersavas
mailTo:tansel@deep.net