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- From: cjames@melchizedek.cec-services.com (The Right Reverend Colin James III)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: "can you summarize on the Booch Method?"
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 19:53:01 GMT
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- tuishimi@aol.com (Tuishimi) posted with deletions:
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- | can you summarize on the Booch Method?
-
- I can: terribly complicated and not easy to read.
-
- It, and tools purporting to support it, are not seamless or reversible
- and are ambiguous, ie, a design therefrom can not be verified correct
- using second-order predicate logic. (The same goes for Rumbaugh's OMT
- and the unfinished, upcoming UNIFIED, which should be named UNIFRIED.)
-
- An anomaly of the Booch method is that anytime a new method comes
- along, ie, add one to the 50 or 60 methods out there already, it can
- be said that the Booch method suddenly has a stub for that newer
- method as a sub-set within Booch, the mother-of-all-methods. Hence,
- avoid the plastic Booch method, and avoid the trendy, newer stuff.
-
- In that regard, the Booch method is similar to the 'scientific'
- hypothesis of evolution, whereby for each episode when a new fossil is
- found and a "better" Carbon-date is derived, the whole structure of
- bricks (fossils) gets raised up to accommodate the new brick which is
- inserted at its base (rather than right on top).
-
- I am very happy with Business Object Notation (BON), for which see
- www.eiffel.com. I am not going to describe BON here, because that was
- not the question, and the readers of comp.lang.ada, comp.lang.c, and
- comp.lang.c++ generally prefer perfect ignorance as bliss.
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