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From: heller@utdallas.edu (Steve Heller)
Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ?
Date: 1996/12/07
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Date: 1996-12-07T00:00:00+00:00
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rmartin@oma.com (Robert C. Martin) wrote:

>I am saying that the creation of an elite "architecture team" composed
>of members who:
>  1. Dictate their decisions to the programmers.
>  2. Do no programming themselves.
>is a prelude to a disaster.

>Architects must first be programmers.  Architects must continue to write
>some code.  Architects must sell, or at least negotiate, their architectures
>with the developers.

  Absolutely correct in all regards.


Steve Heller, author and software engineer
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/steve_heller