Re: Literate Programming

[Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>]

AdaMagica a �crit :
 > If you take "undeline nouns and make them objects and underline verbs
> and make them operations" literally - yes ;-)
Well, this is not HOOD, it is Booch. HOOD is derived from Booch, but
there is *a lot* more to it...

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Yannick Duch�ne Hibou57 a �crit :
> HOOD is similar ? I just know the name of HOOD, but not what is
> really.
Have a look at the book (http://www.adalog.fr/hoodbook.htm), or register
for a HOOD training at adalog ;-)

> But isn't HOOD a method too ? Do you mean it can be used without its
> method ?
HOOD is a method supported by tools. The method includes various steps,
each with documentation requirements. All documents (including code) are
managed together by the tool, and the tool extracts programs, design
documents, etc from the common data base.

To be honnest, the method has been made more flexible in recent
versions, and you never know how users use a tool...

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Martin a �crit :
>> I just know a significant amount of Ada users like HOOD, ...
>
> I'd question that...
>
> ...I've never met anyone who liked HOOD - irrespective of whether they
> liked Ada or not.

Then we have not met the same people. HOOD was designed as method for
Ada (later extended to other languages), and the mapping is very natural.

> There was a time (mid, to late 80's) when HOOD/Ada was used together
> quite a bit.
And is still used in space, air and railway transportation.

> They were both 'mandated' tools on EuroFighter. We took a
> look at the HOOD tools and promptly dumped it in favour of Teamwork/
> RTSA-OOD (the Ward-Mellor variety), which stood up pretty well, once
> the method => teamwork mapping had been done.
Of course, we are talking about HOOD 4, which has gone a long way since
the 80's. If your only experience of HOOD dates from the mid 80's, it's
like blaming Ada for the inconsistencies in the preliminary document of
July 1980 ;-)
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