Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!pasteur!agate!garnet.berkeley.edu!csm
From: csm@garnet.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Object Oriented Design, Top down design of the 90's?
Message-ID: <7979@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 24 Mar 88 22:23:52 GMT
References: <2045@munnari.oz>
Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: bks@ALFA.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Brad Sherman)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Lines: 17
Keywords: Object-oriented programming, Complexity, Entity-Relationship models
Summary: Does the object paradigm increase or decrease complexity?

In article <2045@munnari.oz> taso@munnari.oz (Taso Hatzi) writes:
>I am seeking comment on the following questions from people who have 
>had success with any object oriented design methodology.
> o What design documentation did you need and what form did it take?
> o What characterizes a properly designed system?
> o Do there exist any well known object oriented design methodologies?

A few more succinct questions:
   * Doesn't each object created necessitate the creation of a whole slew
   of related actions (read procedures) that apply only to that object?
   * If each object created results in n > 1 modules, doesn't
   complexity increase geometrically with the number of objects?
   * Is the C++ programming language really as obtuse as the manual?

I ask these questions out of ignorance; not arrogance.

		-Brad Sherman