Re: [T] Clean Object Class Design -- What is it?

> "Topmind" <topmind_at_technologist.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.15b182bd93fe2c27989b51_at_news.earthlink.net...
> >
> > I can't get a strait answer. The military would
> > probably court-marshal somebody who gave the wishy washy
> > Zen answers that I get.
> >
> LOL. Funny, however, the military people who work in IT
> seem to have no trouble appreciating OO. I find it rather
> fascinating (and comforting) that the high-level US military
> people my company deals with are profoundly intelligent
> in terms of OO. We've never had to "prove" the fundamentals.
> We've only had to prove the results.
> YMMV :-)
Often what happens is that a higher-up hires people who thinks like him, and they pass on the culture by hiring yet more with the same way of thinking. You can get pretty good agreement that way.

I have ended up near other table fans that way.

>
> > > Currently I've moved an abstraction level above databases,
> >
> > Rather than fiddle with yet another layer, I try to
> > "surf" the database features and take advantage of it's
> > inherit power.
> >
> > Perhaps military applications are more concerned with
> > contract formalness instead of being flexible WRT
> > entity influence. The OO approach may indeed help
> > there. I can't say for sure.
>
> The military definitely want a formal project management
> capability, but I've never met a military IT person who
> wasn't intimate with the need for (and difficulties with)
> flexibility.
>
> Any other experience to share with us, Bryce :-?
> Who put in all these newsgroups anyway? Added noise. Sorry.
> Bryce is our comp.object "cross to bear".
>

There is plenty at oop.ismad.com

-T- Received on Sun Jul 08 2001 - 09:29:46 CEST