The bottom line (workshop session): using OOP in a commercial environment

At the first OOPSLA conference, in 1986, there was a panel discussion on the subject of using Object Oriented Programming for Product Development. In 1989, it seemed that the number of people who could address the issues seen in a non-research environment should have grown. So we proposed the OOPSLA ‘89 workshop The Bottom Line: Using OOP in a Commercial Environment. At ECOOP/OOPSLA’90, we continued the dialog established in 1989, with a second workshop on the same topic. The general goal for this workshop was to bring together experienced people for a discussion of the benefits realized and the problems encountered in using OOP in the “real world.”