Title :
Coming of age in an object-oriented world
Author_Institution :
Rational Software, USA
Abstract :
The author predicts that increasing connectivity and consumer demands will power an unprecedented growth in software´s volume and complexity, then explains why the flexibility and robustness of an object-oriented approach can best meet these future challenges.<>
Keywords :
object-oriented programming; software metrics; connectivity; consumer demands; object oriented programming; object-oriented approach; object-oriented world; software complexity; software volume; Data visualization; Earth; Fuels; Graphical user interfaces; Parallel machines; Pervasive computing; Robustness; Space technology; Speech recognition; Videoconference;
Journal_Title :
Software, IEEE
