Xref: utzoo comp.object:3156 comp.software-eng:5340 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!kodak!islsun!cok From: cok@islsun.Kodak.COM (David Cok) Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Documenting OO Systems Message-ID: <1991Apr13.205320.7013@kodak.kodak.com> Date: 13 Apr 91 20:53:20 GMT References: <1899:Apr1206:12:4991@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1991Apr12.201053.18348@visix.com> Sender: news@kodak.kodak.com Organization: Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY Lines: 11 In article <1991Apr12.201053.18348@visix.com> amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) writes: >Indeed. A large software project is, in my experience, more like a >book than it is like a building. Do we call novelists "prose ... A publisher friend once said to me that books were never finished, only abandoned, meaning that they were declared complete when the author tired of correcting and improving. Another similarity between books and software... David R. Cok Eastman Kodak Company cok@Kodak.COM