Introduction: American Programmer March 1997

Posted February 28, 1997 | |

Introduction

Since October 1995, there has been a temporary truce in the "methodology wars" that have plagued the object-oriented community since the late 1980s. The cause of the truce was the introduction of a draft version of a "Unified Modeling Language" (subsequently known to one and all as UML) by Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, and Ivar Jacobson of Rational Software Corporation.

About The Author

Ed Yourdon

Ed Yourdon was cofounder, with Karen Coburn, of Cutter Consortium. Ed served as Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, and Founding Editor and Editor Emeritus of the Cutter IT Journal. He chaired Cutter's Summit for many years. Mr. Yourdon is widely known as the lead developer of the structured analysis/design methods of the 1970s. He was a codeveloper of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of object-oriented (OO) analysis/design and the… Read More

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Introduction: American Programmer March 1997

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