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From: rjh@cs.purdue.EDU (Bob Hathaway)
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Subject: Re: Good Design Strategies <Was comments on comments>
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In article <4343@enea.se>, sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>But it's true that Ada is better for applying object-oriented strategies
>than most other "conventional" languages.

I strongly agree, most other conventional languages are data-structure
oriented and not Adt/object oriented in programming constructs or
methodology.

>As for bottom-up vs. top-down, Meyer explains this very well in his
>book, and it's certainly applicable to the recent discussion.

Could you elaborate on this, does he advocate top-down, bottom-up, ???
I haven't read Meyer's book.  

Bob Hathaway
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