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Hibou57 (Yannick Duch�ne) wrote:
> Hello every body out there, :)
> 
> Beside of the famous UML, there is another one : BON, which stands for
> Business Object Notation.
> 

This is the first time I have ever heard of it. Thanks for the pointer.

> 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 �Beceause UML is good�, 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.

Are you an Ada user ? If so, what do you think about it ?
I would be most interested in knowing what tool support it like.

best regards, Martyn