Hi,

please check out

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lieber/LoD.html

Selecting "Bibtex references" gives you the papers.

Yes, the LoD comes from a story involving the goddess Demeter.
Our metaphor is "growing software" as opposed to "building software".
So we named our system after the Greek goddess of agriculture.
Growing software means to us to write flexible software.
While trying to achieve flexibility we discovered within Demeter a
useful style rule which we called LoD.

Adaptive Software for Java has grown out of the LoD and leads to significantly
more flexible software. See:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lieber/Demeter-and-Java.html

-- Karl

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From rhennel@ix.netcom.com Thu Jul 31 07:43:44 1997
From: Ronald V Hennel <rhennel@ix.netcom.com>
Reply-To: rhennel@ix.netcom.com
To: lieber@denali.ccs.northeastern.edu
Subject: Law of Demeter papers

Hi,

I found your e-mail address here:
http://www.shirai.info.waseda.ac.jp:8001/~monma/NNTP/comp.doc.techreports/941218
when I as searching for information about the Law of Demeter and the
possible relationship between The Law of Demeter and the Goddess
Demeter?

During a design session a few weeks ago, the Law of Demeter came up. 
Not everyone had heard about the law so we all agreed to do some
research on the subject.  During me search I found references to the
Greek Goddess Demeter and was wondering if the Law comes from a story
involving the Greek goddess?

I would appreciate it if you could send me any additional information
about either the law or the Goddess.

Thanks in advance

Ron

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