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From: bertrand@eiffel.UUCP (Bertrand Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Overused metaphors - Software ICs, etc.
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Date: 11 Aug 90 21:46:36 GMT
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``Project versus product culture'': unless I am mistaken, I
originated this terminology in a short presentation I made at
a panel at a conference in New Orleans in 1989. The notion was
refined and discussed in detail in my article ``The New Culture
of Software Development: Reflections on the Practice of
Object-Oriented Design'', published in the proceedings of
TOOLS '89 (Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems),
Paris, November 1989, pages 13-23.

In more recent presentations I have tended to use the term
``component'' rather than ``product'' for the second term
of the opposition, but the ideas remain the same.

-- Bertrand Meyer
bertrand@eiffel.com