Re: Pre-Ada95 books still worth reading

[wrp <i3text@gmail.com>]

On Jul 15, 4:29 am, Simon Wright <si...@pushface.org> wrote:
> "J-P. Rosen" <ro...@adalog.fr> writes:
> > Le 14/07/2012 23:44, Simon Wright a écrit :
> > AFAIR, Buhr's was not a grapical representation for Ada constructs, but
> > for a design method, based on ASM.
>
> There may be two different books, of course. The one I used to have was
> definitely about Ada.

You remember right. From what I read online, it seems Bhur started
with

    Buhr. 1984. System design with Ada.

in which he introduced his graphical notation. I guess he chose Ada
because it was the hip language of the day. Then he refined his system
and downplayed Ada in

    Buhr. 1990. Practical visual techniques in system design: with
applications to Ada.

and finally dropped Ada in

    Buhr. 1995. Use Case Maps for Object-Oriented Systems.

I thought that since Ada was his working language during development,
he might have included features to make his notation more suited to
Ada than UML is.