Re: Object Oriented Analysis Is An Oxymoron

Subject: Re: Object Oriented Analysis Is An Oxymoron
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:17:17 -0400


TechComm Dood wrote:
>> I got the impression he was talking about the technical stuff that's
>> on a level we really do not care about (classes, pointers, and so
>> forth). But he seemed like he couldn't get out of here fast enough,
>> so I doubt whether I'll find out if my impression was correct.
>
> Um, my team is totally emmersed in that "level we really do not care
> about" and it's made a world of difference in the quality of the
> documentation we release, according to customer feedback, internal
> feedback, and self evaluations.
>
> You may not care about it, and you may be happy to live with knowing
> "what" and not "how", but please, let's not generalize these "happy
> places" as places where we all want to or feel we should be.

If it's pertinent to the user, then I care about it. Do your end users
really care how the underlying structure of the application works? That
was what I meant.

I do not understand what you are asking me not to do in the last
sentence you wrote.


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Re: Object Oriented Analysis Is An Oxymoron: From: John Posada
Re: Object Oriented Analysis Is An Oxymoron: From: Bonnie Granat
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