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From: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: OO Case tools
Message-ID: <10600@claris.com>
Date: 5 Oct 89 14:04:14 GMT
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Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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jimb@athertn.Atherton.COM (Jim Burke) writes:
>Having recently recently ended my involvement with an OO project
>(using objective-c) the frustrations are still fresh in my mind
>regarding the lack of reasonable tools to aid in oo software
>development.  I'd be interested in hearing about any such tools
>that are now or soon to be available.  For example, CASE, documentation
>tools, design tools, debugging tools, etc. etc.  At least in the
>Objective-C world, there still does not exist a symbolic debugger
>commercially available for most platforms.  God help you if you have
>to debug from the generated C code.  I'm sure a lot of people are
>working on other oo tools besides databases - anyone care to share
>the latest and greatest???

At the Apple Worldwide Developer's Conference back in the spring, there was
an exhibitor named SoftSet showing a prerelease of a product called Aranda.
This was a design/documentation tool that ran off Pascal and Object Pascal
sources.  They stated that they expected to have a C/C++-cognizant version
"shortly" after the release of the Pascal version.  You might want to
check with them.  They're located in Vancouver, BC.  I don't know when Aranda
will be released, but it was the first CASE product of any sort that I had
encountered that didn't appear to be onerous in its demands on the programmer.

Dennis Cohen
Claris Corp.
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