From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,4feb499c05063194 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!216.196.110.149.MISMATCH!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Artistically creative expression has no role in software design Date: 23 Jul 2004 21:59:29 +0100 Organization: Pushface Sender: simon@smaug.pushface.org Message-ID: References: <2m2j9gFhf4cpU1@uni-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1090616681 18854 62.49.19.209 (23 Jul 2004 21:04:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:04:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2359 Date: 2004-07-23T21:59:29+01:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus writes: > Simon Wright wrote: > : 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). > > Is this notation more readable than conventional programming > languges? The OMG part specifies the semantics required, not the syntax. So -- at the moment -- the syntax is up to the vendor. The last time I actually dealt with this stuff was a few years ago, at the time I wondered exactly what the vendors' qualifications as language syntax designers might have been; it was rather simple (typing by first assignment, for instance). But it was certainly clear enough about the UML aspects (navigatinjg from instance to instance, for example); I wouldn't have wanted to code up a Kalman filter in it, though. Code inserts (Ada for us) were allowed. -- Simon Wright 100% Ada, no bugs.