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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Problem space (Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada
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"Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com> writes:

> "Stephen Leake" <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> wrote in message
> news:u3cjk81gg.fsf@nasa.gov...
> > But push it to the extreme, and people will say we should be
> > programming in UML, not Ada.
> 
> But that is a foolish argument since UML is not well defined.

There is nothing to prevent definition of a subset ('profile') that is
rigorously-enough defined to be translated. You can do that with a
small core of UML. For example, http://www.projtech.com/