I don't think her conclusion is correct in this case (that it's all about chronological order). It's not about what happens first but about levels of abstraction. It doesn't make sense to say that we want to decide on the number of doors before specifying if we're building a LEGO car or a skyscraper in Manhattan.

The reasonable approach is to start from high-level concepts and only then deal with the details - without specifying high-level concepts the details have no particular meaning.

As a side note I have to say that I definitely prefer languages with `object.function` rather than `function(object)`, precisely because of this. Another example: `if(foo == 5)`, not `if(5 == foo)`