"A good visual image for a well-designed object class is of a hard, curved, solid shape - a capsule if you will - with several access ports that require standard connectors."
"Unfortunately, our objects are not always that clean and solid. Indeed, at times they bear a greater resemblance to an amorphous organic mass in a laboratory, floating in liquid, with tubes, wires, and probes running into it at various points. Kind of disgusting, isn't it?" |