Re: Artistically creative expression has no role in software design

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> Q4: What about UML and other languages intended for solely human readers?
> 
> [Amateur: Documents written in those languages are not programs?]

There are parts of UML (1.n, not yet up to speed with 2) that are
sufficiently formal that code can indeed be generated from them. This
includes class and state modelling but excludes use cases :-)

You usually have to subset the complete UML and state what precise
interpretation you will place on the model and what extensions
(stereotypes and tagged values) have what meanings. This is known as a
profile. So far you have enough for a framework, you need to add the
application logic.

UML now includes (not sure at what revision exactly) an action
language specification which has allowed at least two companies to
create development systems where you can specify your subject in UML +
actions and have the resulting model execute (by complete translation
to a development runtime, possibly based on C) and be deployed (by
complete translation to a deliverable runtime, possibly in a different
language eg Ada).

I have some links on the Resources page under
http://pushface.org/coldframe/ -- specifically the Project Technology
and Kennedy-Carter links.

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Simon Wright                               100% Ada, no bugs.