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Date:Mon Mar 7 09:06:04 2002 
Subject:Re: Do poplog programmers have strong opinions on UML and USDP? 
From:Jeff Best 
Volume-ID:1020307.03 

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:
>lucb@telus.net.DELETETHISWORD
>
>

Regards,
-- 
Jeff Best