Summary of Class Meeting of March 1, 1999

 	We worked on a second example of computing the bang metric, this 
time with a function strong application.  The calculation in this case
is much more involved than for a data strong application as we did last 
time.  If you have a hybrid application, you try to divide it into 
function strong and data strong components and compute the bang for each
component separately.  Then you can add the bamgs to form the bang of the
overall application.
	Increasingly, applications tend to be data strong rather than
function strong.  An application is function strong only when it involves
complex calculations, or extensive editing and rearrangement, perhaps to
format a complex report or display.  Remember, however, that the ERD should
involve only relationships actually explicit in the specifications.