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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@nospam.baesystems.com>
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You mean you don't find useful the way an Ada programs
abstracts a real world problem and the compiler/binder/linker
automatically produces machine instructions?

;-)

"A picture tell a thousand words" and if those words are
Ada, C or French, I don't care, so long as it works and either
a) I never have to look at the output, or,
b) if I do then there is a tool to help me (preferably at the
   same level as I originally input my model, be it UML or Ada).

> 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.