Monthly Archives: June 2010

Elizabethan guidance on Object-Oriented software design

Technical Consultant at Feabhas Ltd
Glennan is an embedded systems and software engineer with over 20 years experience, mostly in high-integrity systems for the defence and aerospace industry.

He specialises in C++, UML, software modelling, Systems Engineering and process development.
Glennan Carnie

So what did the Elizabethans know about software development?  Well, in truth, nothing whatsoever.  But what they had begun to do is codify and systematise the knowledge and experience of masters in manuals, treatises and books.  Some of the earliest documents of this form refer to the martial arts or, as it was known at the time the ‘Arts of Defence’

In martial arts one learns practical skills (in this case how to defend oneself against any enemy) through practice and […]

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