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From: johnson@p.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Comments on OOP style
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Date: 6 Feb 90 17:40:18 GMT
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Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!johnson    Feb  5 08:45:00 1990


Rereading in the morning the message I sent last night, it is clear that
I was harder on jimad@microsoft than I intended to be.  He raises important
points about good designs being changeable and that one class shouldn't
access too many other classes.  I disagreed with his numbers because of
the fact that standard and often used classes are almost invisible to
the expert.  Thus, accurate design rules will be much more complex than
the ones that he was proposing.  However, the general idea is certainly
valid.

Ralph Johnson -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign