Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!inesc!unl!unl!px From: px@fct.unl.pt (Joaquim Baptista [pxQuim]) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: Demeter environment Message-ID: Date: 3 Jun 91 15:48:18 GMT References: <1991Jun2.153016.11195@mstr.hgc.edu> Sender: news@fct.unl.pt (USENET News System) Distribution: comp.object Organization: Universidade Nova de Lisboa -- Lisbon, Portugal Lines: 32 In-Reply-To: jcm@mstr.hgc.edu's message of 2 Jun 91 15:30:16 GMT In article <1991Jun2.153016.11195@mstr.hgc.edu> jcm@mstr.hgc.edu (James McKim) writes: In article simmons@crd.ge.com (simmons) writes: >A friend has asked me if I know anything of a software environment >called Demeter. I gather this is a programming environment to >support/enforce the Law of Demeter. I have tried archie for >anything named demeter, but came up empty. Has anyone out there >heard of such a thing? > > -- Mel Simmons > simmons@crd.ge.com > GE Corporate Research > Schenectady NY Demeter is a CASE tool developed mainly by Karl Lieberherr who is also the author of "the Law". There is a nice article in the August/September, 1988 issue of JOOP that describes both. Anyone know of more recent articles? OOPSLA'89 includes an article which describes the use of the Demeter environment to teach object oriented thinking. It goes to great detail in explaining the motivation of the students and the precise schedule of the material that is presented. ---- Joaquim Baptista, aka px@fct.unl.pt, px@unl.uucp Snail: CRIA, UNINOVA, FCT/UNL, 2825 Mt Caparica, Portugal So long, and thanks for all the fish.