Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.uni-c.dk!sunic!sunic.sunet.se!mn6.swip.net!seunet!news2.swip.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!qmw!orac.sunderland.ac.uk!i_mitchell_pc.sunderland.ac.uk!Ian.Mitchell From: Ian.Mitchell@sunderland.ac.uk (Ian Mitchell) Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.python,comp.lang.sather,comp.lang.smalltalk Subject: Re: Rapid Prototyping + statically-typed OOPLs? Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:51:23 Organization: University of Sunderland Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <805548287snz@galacta.demon.co.uk> <1995Jul13.154620.4333@rcmcon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: i_mitchell_pc.sunderland.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.object:33639 comp.lang.beta:467 comp.lang.c++:129550 comp.lang.eiffel:9351 comp.lang.python:5082 comp.lang.sather:1958 comp.lang.smalltalk:24471 In article <1995Jul13.154620.4333@rcmcon.com> rmartin@rcmcon.com (Robert Martin) writes: >There may be better languages than C++ for operating in this kind of >environment, but we currently have no complaints. We are using >Borland C++ and OWL. We have developed a framework of classes that >allows us to put a prototype together if very short order, and then go >through a number of iterations in an economical fashion. >The critical aspect of this ability to rapidly prototype is the afore >mentioned framework. One advantage to using C++ in prototyping is the terseness of the language. It is easy to extract a call tree for each C++ method and rework the O-O model in a language-independent environment. This facilitates the ability to move backwards and forwards between problem space (where implementation independent models are elicited) and solution space (where prototypes such as simulations and blueprint executables can be tested). Couple this with a reusable class framework library, and a CASE environment to manage it all, and you have a workable rapid prototyping workbench. I am currently working on an O-O R.P. CASE tool in support of this approach. If you like, you can check out my web page for more info. Regards, Ian Mitchell ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Mitchell Ian.Mitchell@sunderland.ac.uk osiris.sund.ac.uk/research/canopus/mitchell/rpl.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- sic biscuitus disintegrat -----------------------------------------------------------------