Object technology
by Taylor, David A. · first published 1998
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…to be adapted & maintained it will almost certainly be more productive to use an OO approach. Btw, I found this book provides the most concise and useful primer on OO I've seen: http://www.amazon.com/Object-Technology-Managers-David-Taylo... sean
on “Ask HN: can you summarize OO for me in 64 words or less?” ↗>Many things can be learnt from simulating real world systems. This reminded me of the book "Business Engineering with Object Technology" by David A Taylor. In one chapter he goes about identifying "objects" in a manufacturing business and goes down to the level of modeling employees and the machines that they'd be using on the production…
on “When SimCity Got Serious: Story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery” ↗…Marketing Automation, its more relevant for me to do "continued" (outside of work) education not in coding, but in platform research (Eloqua, HubSpot, Marketo), more SQL/data management (I am reading "Object Technology: a Manager Guide), and certifications in these platforms.
on “Ask HN: How many of you non-tech people wanted to learn to code and gave up” ↗…Developers are continuously connected to this database; therefore changes are immediately visible to all developers." https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Develope... ~ 1992 Product Review: Object Technology’s ENVY Developer http://archive.esug.org/HistoricalDocuments/TheSmalltalkRepo...
on “Some programming language ideas” ↗…Developers are continuously connected to this database; therefore changes are immediately visible to all developers." https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Develope... ~ 1992 Product Review: Object Technology’s ENVY Developer http://archive.esug.org/HistoricalDocuments/TheSmalltalkRepo...
on “Some programming language ideas” ↗