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Object orientation has been held up as the “silver bullet” of the software crisis by Brad Cox. However, many projects are still running over budget and behind time, and fail to provide the level of functionality originally specified. Of these projects many are now based on solid object-oriented philosophies. Indeed, it is not uncommon to hear the cry that “we used an object-oriented programming approach and still had problems”. Such problems are of course, due to a variety of mistakes made by project leaders, designers and developers. In some cases it can be attributed to lack or training, lack of experience or poor methods.
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Coleman D., Arnold P., Bodoff S., Dollin C., Gilchrist H., Hayes F. and Jeremes P. (1994) Object-Oriented Development: The Fusion Method, Prentice Hall International, Englewood Cliffs NJ.
Cox B.J. (1986) Object-Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach, Addison-Wesley, Reading.
Cox B.J. (1990) There is a silver bullet. BYTE; October, 209–218.
Firesmith D.G. and Eykholt E. M. (1995) Dictionary of Object Technology, SIGS Books, New York.
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Hunt, J.E., McManus, A.G. (1998). Inheritance and Reuse. In: Key Java. Practitioner Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0607-4_2
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