Preface
It was 1991 when I got my first copy of Booch's classic Object Oriented Design with Applications (first edition). I had learned several OO languages by then, including C++ and Smalltalk. I was absolutely thrilled by the concept of Booch's notation. Those clouds! Those relationships! The message passing diagrams! As a software designer it was just what I needed!
I also needed a tool to draw the diagrams. So I started writing a CASE tool in Think-C for the Macintosh. I remember spending a lot of time getting the cloud icon to look just right. Though I never finished that CASE tool, one artifact of it remains. The cloud icon I created has followed me from computer to computer, from Macintosh to Windows, and has been the source of all the cloud ...
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