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From: alms@cambridge.apple.com (Andrew L. M. Shalit)
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Subject: Re: OO Case tools
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Date: 5 Oct 89 15:18:20 GMT
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In-reply-to: jimb@athertn.Atherton.COM's message of 4 Oct 89 19:43:27 GMT

In article <13307@athertn.Atherton.COM> 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 don't know if this helps, but some (most?) of the best programming
environments in the world are built around dynamic object-oriented
languages like Lisp Flavors  and Smalltalk.

Of course, the operative word in the above sentence is 'dynamic'.  The
dynamic (i.e. interactive) nature of the early object-oriented
languages contributed to much of their power.  The value of
a dynamic environment was (sadly) overlooked when people designed
object-oriented extensions to C and Pascal.