Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ucselx!bionet!agate!ucbvax!cs.hull.ac.uk!rst From: rst@cs.hull.ac.uk (Rob Turner) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Selecting Software Engineering Paradigms Message-ID: <7287.9011301324@olympus.cs.hull.ac.uk> Date: 30 Nov 90 13:24:46 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 19 Ernie Svehla writes: >... should a Spiral approach or Object Oriented Approach be taken? ... I didn't think these were mutually exclusive. Surely you can develop software in an object oriented way, but still take a spiral approach for the whole project. I have always assumed that the spiral approach was a complete software lifecycle method, with the development of software within that lifecycle being object oriented if so desired. Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------ Robert Turner | rst@cs.hull.ac.uk Department of Computer Science | University of Hull | "In every real man a child is Hull HU6 7RX | hidden that wants to play" England | - Nietzsche