Article: Developers find gains outweigh OO learning curve. (object-orientation) (includes related article on object-based tools) (Client/Server Computing Edition)

EARLY USERS CITE IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY, ENABLING OF REAL DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING; KAPPA HELPS ANTHEM BUILD CLAIMS DATABASE

Over the past two and a half years, client/server has dominated application development trends. It has also been the driving force behind the adoption and use of many new technologies, sucn as object orientation, an advanced development paradigm.

While IS has been using object-oriented (OO) tools for just two to three years, early experience shows that OO development can yield tremendous benefits. Productivity improvements have approached an order of magnitude over conventional development. Also, OO has enabled real distributed ...

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