Re: Why do I need New Era?

On Wed, 29 Mar 1995, robert j cline ii wrote: > Why do you think that development time will take longer with OOP? > Is that due to a lack of understanding of Object Oriented Methods? > Or the fact that without OO a product is initially delivered in > a form that is not 100% of the customers expectations and needs (which > requires numerous revisions to correct or enhance prior to the > product being 'complete'). > > The main goal of OO (Design/Analysis/Programming) is to shorten > the actual development time and strengthen the quality of code. > This is acheived by: > > a) A rigid methodology for analysis (Like Shlaer-Mellor). > b) Spending more time in analysis and design to ensure that the > customrer/end-user receives a product that is actually what > they desire. > c) Reuse of common code (objects). > > You may spend more time in analysis and design than you have in other > development projects. Some customers may feel that you need to start > writing code from day one of a project. This only leads to major > maintenance and enhancements. With OO technologies you can deliver > a stronger more robust package from Version 1, rather than waiting > for several revisions of a package using non OO technologies. > > What ever your views are, In My Opinion, OO is one of the best > things to affect our business in quite some time. > > Regards Robert, I agree with everything that you stated. OO really has to be thought out before you start writting code. I am very new to OO programming. But I really like what I see in OOP, but it is hard to prove to management that it will take 4 months to build some objects. Management likes to see a screen and it working correctly. (Fast Development) And there is always problems when you try to develop an application fast. NewEra is based on OO, you have to do some design work before you start building the application. But I am sure with all tool that you could write a fast application. Have you used NewEra? I would like to hear from people what they like and dislike about NewEra. At this point, I don't really care about the cost. I just want to use the best development tool to write a mission critical client/server application running against Informix DBMS. Matt ps. sorry if this goes out twice, problems with the mail reader!