Tools 7 (Conf) (Tools Conference Series)

TOOLS EUROPE 1992 marks the 25th anniversary of Simula 67 the language that brought object-orientedness to the world. This book seeks to provide a comprehensive look into the state of the object-oriented art. Based on the contributions to TOOLS 7, it covers all major aspects and competing trends in the O-O community - languages, methods, tools. The book covers several topics pioneered by earlier TOOLS, such as object-oriented format specification, use interface design and application libraries, which now show maturation and practical developments. A whole session has also been devoted to telecommunications applications, an area where some of the most impressive object-oriented systems are being implemented. Other topics include the Oberon language, O-O operations research, economic issues of software reuse and real-time O-O applications.