Re: Artistically creative expression has no role in software design

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:28:06 +0200, Martin Krischik wrote:
> 
>> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
> 
> Right, but the author emphasizes that possibility is nothing, intent and
> purpose is everything:
> 
> "... While people trained in software may read the source code of computer
> programs, this is done for no other purpose than to understand how the
> programs work. Hence, it can be said that computer programs are only
> literary works in form, whereas in substance they are technology for using
> computers. Consequently, the fact that source code reads like the English
> language gives the wrong impression as to its true nature."
> 
> In his logic an ability to generate code from UML just "gives the wrong
> impression"...

But I was trying to answer the question in the [] ;-). - UML Documents are
programs - just on a different abstraction level.

With Regards

Martin
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