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From: Britt Snodgrass <britt.snodgrass@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Prototyping with Ada
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On May 31, 1:03=A0am, Stephen Leake <Stephe.Le...@nasa.gov> wrote:
>
> Ada is a very good language for expressing design (much better thanUML!). =
It also happens to be executable; that's just a side benefit
> :).

I generally agree. See http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=3D08/05=
/31/1726208
for a discussion titled 'Is UML Really Dead, Or Only Cataleptic?"

However I've been using Telelogic's Rhapsody "Developer in Ada" Tool
for the last year and generally liking it as a large project design
tool.  Some aspects of UML & SysML are useful but some of the concepts
and terminology don't either map well to Ada, or are otherwise
insufficient.  Wish I had more time to write on this topic but I
don't...

- Britt