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Subject: Users of the BON notation among Ada users ?
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 07:38:25 -0800 (PST)
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Hello every body out there, :)

Beside of the famous UML, there is another one : BON, which stands for
Business Object Notation.

BON, comes from the world of Eiffel users, seems relevant, but did not
caught the celebrity of UML. Just as a kind of quick poll, the request
"Unified Modeling Language" returns 1 310 000 results on google.fr,
while the request "Business Object Notation" returns a little as 1 710
on the same search engine.

There are some criticisms about UML, among these, one wich I share :
not easy to communicate with peoples with a such complex notation. BON
is much simpler.

Perhaps the reason why UML is so much popular is beceause of a good
marketing strategy which help it to reach this level of
celebrity, .... or perhaps beceause it is good.

If the reason is =93Beceause UML is good=94, one question which may
incidentally comes, could be "is BON less good than UML" ? ..... or is
it just beceause UML started to occupy all places befor BON comes into
live ?

Did you, Ada users, or curious-interested people, ever eval the
relevance of BON ? What do you think about it ?

Many thanks for any intellectual materials

Yannick.