Re: Artistically creative expression has no role in software design

[rolf.ebert_nospam_@gmx.net (Rolf Ebert)]

Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message news:<2037155.DSSJocQ4yI@linux1.krischik.com>...
> All UML generators I have seen generate only from the Class view. They do
> not create from the activity or state charts.

Probaly you missed most of the market leaders.  At least Rose, Artisan
and Rhapsody generate code from statecharts, probably others do as
well.  I have seen programs (i.e. models) containing thousands of
nested states (debatable if that was a good design).  On a key click
you get a complete and running program.  It is impressive when you see
that for the first time.

Artisan and Rhapsody can also generate Ada code for state and activity
charts.

As for the action language that Simon mentions, all real life models
that I know use the target language as action language.  That is, you
program in Ada (or mostly in C++, C, or Java) within an activity or at
the state transitions.

    Rolf