Gurus share insights onn objects

Get three of the best-known object methodologists in a room and what do you get? A wide-ranging interview in which Grady Booch, lvar Jacobson, and James Rumbaugh share their insights about some o f the topics o f most interest t o the readers o f this department, from patterns to the role o f modeling and the future o f the software industry Separately, they wrote three o f the best-known books in the field. Now teamed up a t Rational, they are attempting to define the modeling language o f tomorrow through their work on the Unified Modeling Language. They were interviewed by Computer staff members Angela Burgess and Scott Hamilton a t Software Development ’95. -Bertrand Meyer