Re: Communications of ACM: Sir, Please Step Away from the ASR-33!

[Georg Bauhaus <rm-host.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>]

On 12/28/10 3:39 PM, Simon Wright wrote:
> Georg Bauhaus<rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>  writes:
>
>> If UML notation captures much of your model with guaranteed 1:1
>> correspondence of UML notation and Ada notation (e.g.  template based
>> correspondence, or Eiffel IDE style correspondence with BON notation,
>> ...), it will be possible to use _any_ UML tool, thus leaving a
>> choice, and reducing insulation.
>
> If you do this, why bother with the UML tool at all? (unless all you
> want is lots and lots of pretty diagrams to show the boss).

I think I meant what you explain, that the correspondence
of UML (at its level) to source (at its level) should
be established by co-operation between model makers and
program authors.  The thing is, we can do this, and there
is benefit.