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The design of the C++ Booch Components

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 25, Issue 10

Pages 1 - 11

https://doi.org/10.1145/97946.97947

Published: 01 September 1990 Publication History

Abstract

This paper describes design issues encountered developing a reusable component library. The design applied encapsulation, inheritance, composition and type parameterization. The implementation uses various C++ mechanisms, including: virtual and static member functions, templates, and exceptions.

The resulting library contains about 500 components (mostly template classes and functions) and an optional utility for instantiating templates. The components provide variations of basic collection/container abstractions with various time and space complexities.

A key insight gained from this project: the design process centered on developing a “template for the templates” — designing a component framework and orderly process for generating the template classes.

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The design of the C++ Booch Components
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
    2. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Concurrent programming structures
      2. Language types
    2. Software libraries and repositories

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 25, Issue 10

Oct. 1990

320 pages

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EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/97946

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Norman Meyrowitz

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OOPSLA/ECOOP '90: Proceedings of the European conference on object-oriented programming on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
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DOI:10.1145/97945
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