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- From: hawk@hpavla.lf.hp.com (Dave Hawk)
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:04:36 GMT
- Subject: Re: Why and how do organizations select the OO approach to S.E
- Message-ID: <9110004@hpavla.lf.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Little Falls Site
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- >mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman @ George Washington University) writes
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- > They hired a _really_ big-name consultant (NOT a professor, Mark!)
- > to teach them his OO methodology and take a first crack at a design
- > for them. After collecting a very large fee, he walked away from the
- > project, leaving behind what they say is an unworkable design.
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- >bs@alice.att.com (Bjarne Stroustrup) writes:
- >I realize you probably can't name names, but it would be nice if you could
- >for two reasons. Firstly because charaltans ought to be exposed, secondly
- >because someone could misinterpret your statement into something condemning
- >lange groups of ``OO-experts'' as windbags who don't deliver. (there are
- >no shortage of windbags and self-proclaimed ``experts,'' but no one field
- >has a monopoly on them).
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- In comp.lang.ada, rlk@VisiCom.COM (Bob Kitzberger) writes:
- > There is a possibility, of course, that the design was indeed 'good', but
- > the engineers on the project weren't qualified enough (read: OO-educated,
- > open-minded, etc.) to implement it.
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- This would still indicate that he walked away to soon. It would seem that
- part of his responsibilities would be to get the engineers sufficiently
- up to speed to successfully carry out the design. On the other hand, he
- may have had the misfortune to walk into a very politicized situation where
- he counldn't win no matter how good his solution was...
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- David Hawk
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