Re: Pre-Ada95 books still worth reading

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

On 19.07.12 20:46, Simon Wright wrote:
> Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
>> One not mentioned so far is Grady Booch and Doug Bryan : Software
>> Engineering with Ada. I don't know how well it is regarded now, but I
>> thought it was good when I read it. Given the Booch Components are
>> still around, it may be worth considering.
>
> The book discusses the Original Booch Components, at
> http://www.adapower.com/original_booch/, not the Ada 95 components at
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/booch95/.
>

I think there are two different books here, the first by Booch and Bryan,
Software Engineering with Ada (1994 (3rd ed.) and earlier);
the second by Booch: Software Components with Ada (1987).

There is one recurring pattern in the first book, maybe worth
mentioning:

  * Identify the objects
  * Identify the operations
  * Establish the visibility
  * Establish the interface
(* Evaluate the objects )
  * Implement each object

The authors explain these steps in an introductory section
titled "An Object-Oriented Design Method".