Re: ada95 and uml

[Robert Palasek <bobpalasek@home.com>]

"Riehle, Richard" wrote:

> From my study of UML and my knowledge of Ada, I have concluded there is a
> substantial linguistic
> discontinuity.   Ada has a rich model of program development that cannot be
> completely represented
> with UML.   Translating from UML to Ada or Ada to UML is guaranteed to lose
> something in the
> translation.
>

I know a little about each, but am not an expert yet with either.

But I don't understand the idea that you are supposed to be
able to generate one from the other.  That seems wrong and
misguided to me. 

 A model is an abstraction that carries some proper subset of
salient points of the thing being modeled.  For it to
be useful, the model has to leave other stuff out.  
If it doesn't leave anything out, it's just an
alternate representation.