Monday, September 3, 2007

Program Execution

The topology of a structure program is inherently different than the topology of an OO program. Modules are nested into a calling tree, as shown below:



By contrast, the topology of an OO program is inherently less ordered. Objects cluster together by those which communicate most frequently. Inter-cluster messages exist, but are less common than intra-cluster messages. Notice how much like a computer network this topology looks.

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