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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: cjames@melchizedek.cec-services.com (The Right Reverend Colin James III) Subject: "can you summarize on the Booch Method?" Date: 1996/02/17 Message-ID: <31262cc4.181027133@news.dimensional.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 140039508 references: <4g55o3$1lh@newsbf02.news.aol.com> organization: CEC Services, LLC reply-to: cjames@melchizedek.cec-services.com newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-02-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: tuishimi@aol.com (Tuishimi) posted with deletions: | can you summarize on the Booch Method? I can: terribly complicated and not easy to read. It, and tools purporting to support it, are not seamless or reversible and are ambiguous, ie, a design therefrom can not be verified correct using second-order predicate logic. (The same goes for Rumbaugh's OMT and the unfinished, upcoming UNIFIED, which should be named UNIFRIED.) An anomaly of the Booch method is that anytime a new method comes along, ie, add one to the 50 or 60 methods out there already, it can be said that the Booch method suddenly has a stub for that newer method as a sub-set within Booch, the mother-of-all-methods. Hence, avoid the plastic Booch method, and avoid the trendy, newer stuff. In that regard, the Booch method is similar to the 'scientific' hypothesis of evolution, whereby for each episode when a new fossil is found and a "better" Carbon-date is derived, the whole structure of bricks (fossils) gets raised up to accommodate the new brick which is inserted at its base (rather than right on top). I am very happy with Business Object Notation (BON), for which see www.eiffel.com. I am not going to describe BON here, because that was not the question, and the readers of comp.lang.ada, comp.lang.c, and comp.lang.c++ generally prefer perfect ignorance as bliss. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Colin James III, Principal Scientist cjames@cec-services.com CEC Services, 2080 Kipling St, Lakewood, CO 80215-1502 USA Voice: 303.231.9437; Facsimile: .231.9438; Data: .231.9434 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~