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From: Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>
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Subject: Re: Users of the BON notation among Ada users ?
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:22:50 +0000
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On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:01:13 -0800 (PST), sjw <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
wrote:

>On Jan 9, 3:38�pm, Hibou57 (Yannick Duch�ne)
><yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>A quick look suggests that BON is roughly equivalent to the subset of
>UML which brings about 90% of the value.

Thanks to everyone for an interesting discussion. It inspired me to find
a second-hand copy of "Seamless Object-oriented software archtecture" by
Walden and Nerson.

It was in perfect condition; in approximately ten years in a University
library (from a Scottish university with a pretty good reputation for
computing science) it had been withdrawn precisely ... never.

- Brian