In message <O7uh8.4219$1d5.218776@news2.telusplanet.net>, Luc Beaudoin
<lucb@telus.net.DELETETHISWORD> writes
>I am curious to know whether people in the Poplog community have strong
>views on the strengths and shortcomings of the Unified Modelling Language
>and Unified Software Development Process, by Jacobson, Booch and friends.
>
In my experiments and trial of the Rational Software, I found both the
process and the modelling tools highly unsatisfactory. There seemed to
be major flaws in the model, particularly with respect to grounding of
states and I couldn't alter the way code was generated to my
satisfaction.
However, as usual, I was trying to do far too many other things while
the software was on trial, so my time spent with Rational's product was
limited, and so my understanding of both their development process and
the tools is likely to have been equally limited.
Partly as a result of my failure to find an existing product that will
do what I want, I am developing a rival software engineering tool set
which, at the moment, does not use UML, although I do expect to have
support for Pop-11 as a plug-in language. It will be a little while
before I have the Pop-11 grammar added to my Universal Grammar (nothing
to do with Chomsky), and longer still before the Interface Generator is
up and running to wrap Poplog up into a CORBA, ActiveX or other object
model.
>Cheers,
>
>Luc
>PS, to reply directly to me delete the last dot and suffix in:
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>
Regards,
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Jeff Best
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