Douglas T. Ross - Programming Quotes

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I introduced what I called "outside-in problem solving," which nowadays is called "top-clown." But I prefer outside-in because outside-in allows you to have many different viewpoints instead of a single top that you stupidly try to get to the bottom of, and things of that sort. Object oriented programming came out of that.

Douglas T. Ross

Computer-aided design also is not automatic programming, although automatic programming techniques must necessarily play an important role in computer-aided design.

Douglas T. Ross

Automatic design has the computer do too much and the human do too little, whereas automatic programming has the human do too much and the computer do too little. Both techniques are important, but are not representative for what we wish to mean by computer-aided design.

Douglas T. Ross