Clean Architecture

Appendix A Architecture Archaeology
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Two years before that phone call, two things of significance happened.
First, I managed to set up a 
uucp
connection to a nearby company that had a 
uucp
connection to another facility that was connected to the Internet. These 
connections were dial-up, of course. Our main Sparcstation (the one on my 
desk) used a 1200-bps modem to call up our 
uucp
host twice per day. This 
gave us email and Netnews (an early social network where people discussed 
interesting issues).
Second, Sun released a C++ compiler. I had been interested in C++ and OO 
since 1983, but compilers were difficult to come by. So when the opportunity 
presented itself, I changed languages right away. I left the 3000-line C 
functions behind, and started to write C++ code at Clear. And I learned …
I read books. Of course, I read 
The C++ Programming Language
and 
The 
Annotated C++ Reference Manual
(
The ARM
) by Bjarne Stroustrup. I read 
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock’s lovely book on responsibility-driven design: 
Designing 
Object Oriented Software
. I read 
OOA
and 
OOD
and 
OOP
by Peter Coad. I 
read 
Smalltalk-80
by Adele Goldberg. I read 
Advanced C++ Programming 
Styles and Idioms
by James O. Coplien. But perhaps most significantly of all, 
I read 
Object Oriented Design with Applications
by Grady Booch.
What a name! Grady Booch. How could anyone forget a name like that. 
What’s more, he was the 
Chief Scientist
at a company called Rational! How I 
wanted to be a 
Chief Scientist
!
 
And so I read his book. And I learned, and I 
learned, and I learned …
As I learned, I also began debating on Netnews, the way people now debate 
on Facebook. My debates were about C++ and OO. For two years, I relieved 
the frustrations that were building at work by debating with hundreds of 
folks on Usenet about the best language features and the best principles of 
design. After a while, I even started making a certain amount of sense.
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