From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: ell@access4.digex.net (Ell) Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1996/12/06 Message-ID: <5883q1$oae@news3.digex.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 202616761 organization: The Universe newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng Date: 1996-12-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Richie Bielak (richieb@calfp.com) wrote: : Matthew Gream wrote: : : [...] : : > How flexible is the software? This has a lot to do with architecture: : > "if you don't get the architecture right up front, you may as well pack : > up and go home" [quote made by a fellow engineer]. : These kinds of statements always bother me. How are you supposed to : know that the architecture (or design for that matter) is right? : : The only way I see is to implement it and see how it works. That's : why the iterative software development makes sense, you get to try : out out your ideas in practice and adjust them as needed. The point as far as I'm concerned is that an architecture should guide _all_ coding. That is even if the initial architecture is later modified, or later scrapped. Elliott