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While reading the delightful “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications“, Grady Booch et al extol the virtues of object-oriented analysis over the venerable, but passe, structured analysis approach to front end system composition. As they assert below, one of the benefits of OOA is that it’s easier and more natural to avoid mixing concrete design details with abstract analysis results.

Out of curiosity (which killed the cat), I scrolled down to see what note [4] meant:

WTF? Do they mean “because that’s the way the boss sez it must be done!” and “because that’s the way we’ve always done it!” aren’t honorable reasons for maintaining the status quo? If so, then dishonorable behavior runs rampant within the halls of most software shops the world over. But you already knew that, no?