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- From: timd@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Tim Dugan)
- Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Design language?
- Date: 14 Mar 1996 13:32:18 -0600
- Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. +1 713 968 5800
- Message-ID: <4i9s82$4ps@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
- References: <31437B51.27C3@bitmailer.net> <4i1j1h$b7i@uuneo.neosoft.com> <JSA.96Mar12132737@organon.com> <4i6qhq$4e8@gaia.ns.utk.edu>
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- In article <4i6qhq$4e8@gaia.ns.utk.edu>,
- Matt Kennel <kennel@msr.epm.ornl.gov> wrote:
- >Jon S Anthony (jsa@organon.com) wrote:
- >: In article <Do4GLH.5Hw@ngc.com> jasons@ngc.com (Jason D. Smith) writes:
- >
- >:>=>I would like to find information about object oriented design
- >:>=>languages. [...] independent coding language manner an then generate
- >:>=>the real code with some tool.[...]
-
- Perhaps the original poster's best bet is to try a platform-
- independent programming language like java?--realizing, of course,
- that platform-independent systems take a hit in performance and
- in reduced functionality.
-
- >Right. And as soon as you make this language independent design
- >langauge, some dweeb [...] is going to ask,
- >
- > "I want a design-language-independent design-design-language
- > to which generates the actual language-independent design-language
- > code!!"
-
- Ha ha! Yep.
-
- >I think the reality is that once some ideas and technology get settled
- >and reliable enough to be automated, they end up--and should end up--in
- >the ordinary language. [...]
-
- Hmmm....yes...and no...at present, most programming languages are
- textual in nature where emerging design systems tend to be graphic
- and hypermedia like. It's true that programming languages tend to
- step up to new features as the ideas become better understood,
- but it seems like there is a bigger leap to be made to graphically-
- oriented programming. Hopefully, over time, we will add enough
- formality and details to systems like the "unified method" to make
- them executable and so they will generate complete code sets
- where necessary.
-
- -t
-
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-
- --
- "...that word isn't in any language--
- it will never be uttered by a human mouth..." - DB
-