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Software Essentials
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Software Essentials

by Adair Dingle
July 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
436 pages
12h 27m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Chapter 8
Design Alternatives
and Perspectives
D
  . Frequently, multiple solutions exist for a
given problem. How does one recognize an optimal, or even a prefer-
able, design? How does a class designer balance short-term and long-term
costs and benets?
To highlight and explain design evaluation, we contrast dierent design
solutions in this chapter. We begin by examining the class construct from
design and use perspectives. Bjarne Stroustrup, the architect of C++, enu-
merated several dierent design types of classes, and we illustrate some
of them here to identify motives for selection and clarify terminology.
We then exa ...
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ISBN: 9781439841204