Re: Good Design Strategies <Was comments on comments>

[billwolf@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe,2847,)]

From article <51955@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, by jellinghaus-robert@CS.YALE.EDU (Rob Jellinghaus):
> Everyone involved in this discussion should get their hands on a copy
> of Bertrand Meyer's book _Object-Oriented Software Construction_, Prentice-
> Hall, 1988.  The design philosophy being discussed sounds virtually
> identical to Meyer's exposition of the object-oriented design method.

    I'd suggest Booch's coverage of object-oriented design in
    "Software Components with Ada" instead; Meyer's book comes
    bound up with a rather flaky programming language.

> You should definitely go out and take a look at this book.  One of Eiffel's
> (Meyer's language) main selling points is its reusable object library,
> with everything from arrays to hash tables to an Xwindows library already
> coded.  (According to reports, lexical analysis and (someday) concurrency
> libraries will be available too.)  

    Ada has far more reuseable ADTs already coded.  I'm coding a concurrent
    ADT right now, in fact.  Vendors such as EVB, lib systems, Wizard Software,
    and so on, have entire catalogs of Ada components you can buy right off the
    shelf, and Ada's rigorous standardization ensures that they'll compile
    anywhere.  Booch's other book, "Software Engineering with Ada" is also 
    worth reading, and I think it also contains something on object-oriented 
    design.  ("Software Components" is more of an advanced text)

    Also, one can obtain a magtape copy of the Ada Software Repository from

        MACA
        Attn: Janet Mckellar
        P.O. Drawer 100 - Bldg T148
        White Sands Missile Rang, NM  88002

    It fills up an entire magtape at 6250 bpi in tar format, and costs
    essentially nothing; all they need is your magtape and enough postage 
    to get it back to you.

    The Ada Information Clearinghouse Newsletter periodically summarizes major
    Ada software libraries and systems; it's free, and you can get on the
    mailing list by sending a postcard to 

        Ada Information Clearinghouse
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    Also, the recent issue of ACM SIGADA Ada Letters contains several
    interesting articles on ADT design and object-oriented programming.  


    Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu
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