jimb@mas.UUCP (Jim Burke) (05/09/89)
From the descriptions I've read on this new newsgroup, it seems that the
initial readers/posters are using the term "components" to refer exclusively
to Ada code ("software IC's"). Is this correct? In the Object Oriented world,
we have used the term software IC for quite some time - especially in the
Objective-C world. I have not encountered the term components in quite the
same context as it has been used here. Is this primarily an Ada term? The
descriptions I have seen of "components" seems to fit quite well with the
object oriented software IC in terms of reusability, reliability, etc.
So, is this an Ada newsgroup, an OO newgroup, both, neither, or what???
It is clear that the next generations of software development will rely on
the principals states for "components" but the implementations are likely
to by quite varied for quite some time...
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(408) 255-1500 ext. 2014ken@reuse.USWEST.COM (Kenny A. Chaffin) (05/10/89)
I also wanted to breach this subject. I work in the Reusable Software Asset group at U S WEST. We spent the last two years defining concepts and developing reusable software components in ... COBOL ... We have had good response to these from several major projects going on in the company. We are currently extending the scope of our work to the Unix/C/C++ area I'm not really sure where this posting is going other than I just wanted to point out the type of components we are dealing with. KAC
billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe,2847,) (05/11/89)
From article <1844@mas1.mas.UUCP>, by jimb@mas.UUCP (Jim Burke): > From the descriptions I've read on this new newsgroup, it seems that the > initial readers/posters are using the term "components" to refer exclusively > to Ada code ("software IC's"). Is this correct? No, both the definition of the scope of the newsgroup and the definition of software components were language-independent. Ada was used as an example of an advanced language which provides an extremely high level of support for the component writer. Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu
gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore) (05/16/89)
/ comp.sw.components / jimb@mas.UUCP (Jim Burke) / May 9, 1989 / >it seems that the >initial readers/posters are using the term "components" to refer exclusively >to Ada code ("software IC's"). Is this correct? In the Object Oriented world, >we have used the term software IC for quite some time - especially in the >Objective-C world. "Software-IC" is a trademark of Stepstone, and they will only let you use it in the context of Objective-C modules (preferably in object-code form). Jacob Gore Gore@EECS.NWU.Edu Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept. {oddjob,chinet,att}!nucsrl!gore