Re: Lamport and toy languages

[Paddy Nixon <Paddy.Nixon@xxxxxxxxx>]

As I understand it Oyvind, UML is a design syntax
without a prescribed process. You use it as you
wish! It's trying to be "all things to all men" as
far as I can see. I haven't really formulated a
good reason as yet to agree or disagree with this
approach - but the world at large seems to like
it!

Paddy

Oyvind Teig wrote:
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> Dear all
> 
> I haven't read all the latest letters. But I am reading
> this book, and it seems like UML authors mean the same
> as "we" do:
> 
>   "UML is phase independent, which means the same generic
>   language and the same diagrams are used to model different
>   things in different phases. It is up to the modeler
>   to decide the purpose and scope that a model should
>   cover."
>     UML Toolkit, Eriksson, Penker, Jown Wiley 1998
>     ISDN 0-471-19161-2
>     Page 31
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Oyvind Teig, Autronica, Trondheim, Norway
> Oyvind.Teig@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Tel.: +47 73 58 12 68
> Fax.: +47 73 91 93 20
> 
> My name starts with "Oslash":
> Øyvind

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