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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: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:23:53 +0000
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:44:27 -0800 (PST), Hibou57 (Yannick Duch�ne)
<yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote:

>On 19 jan, 13:22, Brian Drummond <brian_drumm...@btconnect.com> wrote:
>> 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 ...it had been withdrawn precisely ... never.

>Not surprising : I started this thread with a comparison of the number
>of result returned for a request about UML and BON. Further more, the
>BON official web site seems mostly dead for at least some years.
>
>But this does not tell anything about its usefulness

Probably says a lot about its practical usefulness, unfortunately. Even
if it's the best design tool in the world, its actual implementation is
unlikely to be perfect. 

Which means time spent fighting the tools to overcome bugs, limitations,
documentation errors, etc. Unless you have a critical mass of users, you
get to bear an unreasonably large share of that.

- Brian (who has to fight enough tool problems in VHDL)