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Building objects out of Plato: applying philosophy, symbolism, and analogy to software design

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 49 , Issue 10 (October 2006) table of contents

Pages: 66 - 71

Year of Publication: 2006

ISSN:0001-0782

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Ray Giguette

Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

If we analyze a program as we do a story, we might ask: "What is the author really saying?"

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