On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 04:50:12PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, Tom Russo wrote: > > > The right approach would develop an > > appropriate OO interface to a database package, against which all the > > actors that use the database are written --- and we can implement as many > > variants of the database package as needed, so long as they are written > > to present the same interface. > > > > If we're gonna go OO, let's do OO design rather than just use an OO > > language. > > > > A better starting track might be to design what packages (in the > > OO design lingo, not the linux lingo) are going to be needed to accomplish > > the job, then start considering what they'll have to do and how they'll have > > to be written. > > > > Properly done, we should not be designing around database engines, graphical > > toolkits, or anything like that. We should be designing around an > > abstraction, > > and meshing those choices to that abstraction. > > How many OO experts to we have out there?
Been working on a $2M/year OO software product for about 8 years. Not an expert, but I have some OO design background. > I'm certainly not one. I > was trained in structured programming in college, and picked up OO > as I went along. This means that starting at the OO design level is > not my area of expertise, nor does it need to be. hi hi > > We can do the OO design before picking a language, as any > self-respecting OO language should be able to implement it, correct? Yes. > What tools are used to do OO design other than brainpower? I'm sure > there are OO design books around work that I could borrow for a bit. > Linux tools? Well, there's bouml, argouml, eclipse... I've not had a lot of confidence in the design tools past the initial design process. They try to be things you can use throughout the life-cycle, but mostly they're a hassle. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "It's so simple to be wise: just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." --- Sam Levinson _______________________________________________ Xastir-dev mailing list Xastir-dev@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev
