Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!microsoft!jimad From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: OO vs. Information Engineering Message-ID: <57181@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 5 Sep 90 16:57:46 GMT References: <21730@grebyn.com> <5526@stpstn.UUCP> Reply-To: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 18 In article tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) writes: |I would not go so far as to call OOD a "silver bullet", but I recently read |Grady Booch's new book "Object Oriented Design with Applications", and it is |the first software engineering book I have read that ever made sense or |seemed remotely relevant to the actual process of software development. I like the Booch book a lot. Another recent OOP survey book that I believe is very good is: Object Orientation: concepts, languages, databases, user interfaces Khoshafian & Abnous John Wiley & Sons 1990 ISBN 0-471-51802-6 ISBN 0-471-51802-8 [pbk] [Readers interested in C++ should be forwarned that both books get their C++ examples wrong.]