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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fceb4e36ba4d570f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-22 20:45:29 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3AE3A5BD.C0601A95@home.com> From: Robert Palasek Organization: @Home Network X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en]C-AtHome0407 (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada95 and uml References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 03:45:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.15.222.230 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 987997529 24.15.222.230 (Sun, 22 Apr 2001 20:45:29 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 20:45:29 PDT Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:6846 Date: 2001-04-23T03:45:29+00:00 List-Id: "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.