Chapter 1. Historical Perspective
Problems are the price of progress.
—Charles F. Kettering
Compared to the physical sciences and the Industrial Revolution, software development is relatively new on the scene of human progress. It took more than a millennia for the physical sciences to play a ubiquitous role in modern life and it took the Industrial Revolution over a century to play a similar role. Yet computers and software have become an invasive and essential part of our lives in three decades. Alas, the road traveled has been a bit rocky.
This chapter provides historical context for why the OO paradigm was developed. To fully understand and appreciate the paradigm we need to understand what problems it sought to solve, so we start with ...
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