Grady Booch - Software Quotes

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The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

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Every software system needs to have a simple yet powerful organizational philosophy (think of it as the software equivalent of a sound bite that describes the system's architecture)... [A] step in [the] development process is to articulate this architectural framework, so that we might have a stable foundation upon which to evolve the system's function points.

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In a quality object-oriented software system, you will find many classes that speak the language of the domain expert

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The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

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The entire history of software engineering is that of the rise in levels of abstraction.

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The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic, some sensational method or tool whose application promises to render software development trivial. It is the mark of the professional software engineer to know that no such panacea exist.

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Whereas object-oriented analysis typically focuses upon one specific problem at a time, domain analysis seeks to identify the classes and objects that are common to all applications within a given domain, such as missile avionics systems, compilers, or accounting software.

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As Cox points out, "Without inheritance, every class would be a free-standing unit, each developed from the ground up. Different classes would bear no relationship with one another, since the developer of each provides methods in whatever manner he Chooses. Any consistency across classes is the result of discipline on the part of the programmers. Inheritance makes it possible to define new software in the Same way we introduce any concept to a newcomer, by comparing it with something that is already familiar."

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The object-oriented paradigm is useful when building software systems where there is a hierarchy defined as a ranking or ordering of abstractions.

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