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From: weiner@novavax.UUCP (Bob Weiner)
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Subject: Re: Yourdon's OOA text
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Date: 17 Oct 89 02:11:23 GMT
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In-reply-to: jima@hplsla.HP.COM's message of 6 Oct 89 20:01:23 GMT

I also skimmed Coad's OOSA book at OOPSLA89 and attended his tutorial on
the same subject.  I have to tell people that neither the book nor the
man seemed to say anything of note.

I feel their is little in the way of texts in this area since OO
designers have been happy with the results they have been getting
without the need for a strict systems analysis methodology.  As OO
techniques, see wider usage on larger projects, the need for such a
methodology increases.  Coad is banking on this need, but, in my
opinion, not contributing much.  (All other tutorial attendees that I
spoke to, about six, felt the same way.)

Spend your time reading good OOD books and then work to integrate your
own methods of analysis with the design methods until better
commercially applicable work becomes available in the area.
-- 
Bob Weiner, Motorola, Inc.,   USENET:  ...!gatech!uflorida!novavax!weiner
(407) 738-2087