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From: dick@silicon.csci.csusb.edu (Dr. Richard Botting)
Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ?
Date: 1996/12/04
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(Followups trimmed to comp.object and comp.software-eng)
Robert C. Martin (rmartin@oma.com) wrote:
: In another case, I have worked with a client who had a bunch of
: "architects" doing nothing but drawing pretty Booch diagrams and
: then throwing them over the wall to a bunch of programmers.  The
: programmers hated the architects and ignored what they produced.

Software people have four traditional ways of handling any problems:
	(1) ignore it
	(2) invent a tool
	(3) try to be methodical
	(4) define your program to be the solution and standardize it.

OO seems to have inheritted these virtual methods.
(HHOS)

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