A book by Douglas Adams; the fifth member of the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy trilogy(!), and the first to contain all new material (the first three books were based heavily on the radio series).
The title comes from the original radio series. In The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, the original entry in the guide for Planet Earth is harmless. Ford Prefect was a researcher for the guide who meant to visit Earth for 2 weeks and got stuck for 15 years. During this time he wrote a huge and magnificent entry for planet Earth, which after some editing by his superiors was rendered in the next edition of the book as mostly harmless.
Adams' Whole Sort Of General Mish Mash is the most significant event to hit OO modeling since the Hunting Of The Snark (see Poems About Methodology).
Totally turned a bit of idle beer discussion into a serious ontology and modeling paradigm.
Yup. It permits me to write stuff like "(Actually everything is
an object. But that does not mean that everything must be an object. A little ontology check.)" (from Taxo Mania), and mean it. -- Alistair Cockburn
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