From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,4feb499c05063194 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!213.200.89.82.MISMATCH!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!feed.news.tiscali.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Artistically creative expression has no role in software design Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:28:06 +0200 Organization: AdaCL Message-ID: <2037155.DSSJocQ4yI@linux1.krischik.com> References: <2m2j9gFhf4cpU1@uni-berlin.de> Reply-To: krischik@users.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1090334015 03 23048 uX+6XsFLtKLlKv- 040720 14:33:35 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: GWFCcBZaQeD2fLfUGGEeuhYV+0wVRTNbf6a0SnQ9RnHkfEtjoA7UYt User-Agent: KNode/0.7.7 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2274 Date: 2004-07-20T16:28:06+02:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 13:46:58 -0500, Marc A. Criley: > What about UML and other languages intended for solely human readers? > > [Amateur: Documents written in those languages are not programs?] Well, a super duper code generator could create quite a lot of program from UML - and could be considered a programming language. However I have not seen one yet. All UML generators I have seen generate only from the Class view. They do not create from the activity or state charts. IBM's Visual Age (for Smalltalk, C++ and Java) has shown that it is possible to generate classes with there appropriate activity's as well. With Regards Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net http://www.ada.krischik.com