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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 11cae8,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid11cae8,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public From: williams@utkux4.utcc.utk.edu (Myles Williams) Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1996/12/06 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 202712533 sender: williams@utkux4.utcc.utk.edu references: <32A4659D.347A@shef.ac.uk> organization: Spatula City newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lnag.java,comp.object,comp.software-eng Date: 1996-12-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <588g4v$jer@samba.rahul.net> Carl Weidling writes: On the other hand, wasn't there a famous example back in the 70s when 'top-level design' was first being expounded, where some big project for a newspaper or something was designed first and then coded and it worked. I remember this being cited a lot when I first started programming, can anyone recall details or hard facts about that? That would be the New York Times database, created by IBM circa 1970. It was the first full-scale application of structured programming, and was completed early and under budget with approximately 0.25 defects/kLOC. -- Myles Williams "When you see me again, it won't be me." http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/%7Ewilliams/freeos | Guide to free | operating system kernels