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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cecil is a pure object-oriented programming language that was developed by Craig Chambers at the University of Washington in 1992 to be part of the Vortex project there. Cecil has many similarities to other object-oriented languages, most notably Objective-C, Modula-3, and Self. The main goals of the project were extensibility, orthogonality, efficiency, and ease-of-use. The language supports multiple dispatch and multimethods, dynamic inheritance, and optional static type checking. Unlike most other OOP systems, Cecil allows subtyping and code inheritance to be used separately, allowing run-time or external extension of object classes or instances. Like Objective-C, all object services in Cecil are invoked by message passing, and the language supports run-time class identification. ... Read more

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Taking on a global orientation to software programming, this practical guide offers scores of tested methods for using the C++ programming language with object-oriented design techniques for creating a variety of applications and solving a host of programming problems. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (10)

Well done for its time, but showing its age
Of course, anyone up on the world of software development can tell that this book is long-in-the-tooth just by the title.Even Grady Booch doesn't use the Booch method anymore.

Robert Martin includes one of the best sections on software metrics you are going to find anywhere.His discussion of coupling is clear and usable.He was a little too zealous when he "defined" representational objects as "not-OO" because they didn't fit on his "main sequence."His main sequence analysis is useful, but he's a little too rigid about it.

His definition of the famous "Open-Closed" principle is obscure, but he makes up for it with copious examples.

I really must praise his Security System example as one of the best thought out examples in the literature.His use case analyses, though, are really not up with the times, and were not very well explained in the first place.

Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of folks writing better books in the time since.For use cases, Check out Alistair Cockburn.For modeling, pretty much anything post 1999 from Rational Software will give you better method introductions.Read this book, though, for examples of how even big projects can be done well.

My "Aha!" Moment for O-O Programming
Even if you don't know C++ or use the Booch method, this is the best work I've read on how to engineer software systems. The principles presented in this book apply regardless of computer language or design notation. And, while the book is geared to O-O, those priciples, I think, apply to software design in general. When you finish this book you will think "Of course! Why would you do it any other way?!". Despite over 20 years experience is software design and programming (including 10 in O-O), this book was the "Aha!" moment that made me truely understand how to design and build software systems. I can't reccommend it highly enough. Now, if Martin would just do the same book using Java and UML...

Must read
Best software book I've ever read.And I've read quite a lot of them

it's good
this is the very good book i found till no

Excellent book for OO/C++
This is the best book I ever read in practical OO/C++ programming, it give the code instead of the text for the principle of the OO design and implementation. ... Read more

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THIS 18 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: God's World Part 1, by Mrs. Cecil M. Cook. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766139395. ... Read more

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THIS 26 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: God's World Part 1, by Mrs. Cecil M. Cook. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766139395. ... Read more