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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Analysis and DEsign
Message-ID: <1566@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Jun-86 22:30:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 16 22:30:03 1986
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Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT
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In article <441@ccird1.UUCP> rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard) writes:
>In my own experience, [...] only top-level
>DFDs and S-charts were provided and top-level tasks were assigned to
>different people with no "bottom level unification effort".  The result,
>20 different flavors of "convert structure A to structure B".

Personally, I believe in doing "top-down" and "bottom-up" design
simultaneously.  You design down from the algorithm, and up from the data
structures; the results meet somewhere in the middle.  A design which deals
only with top-level tasks is inadequate (except possibly in the case where
a single person implements the entire design).

Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108