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- From: A.J.C.Blyth@newcastle.ac.uk (Andrew Blyth)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: metamodels, metalanguages, templates, domain models ...
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- Date: 5 Jan 93 15:53:36 GMT
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- > Mike J. Sangrey (mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us) wrote:
- > : I've been reading Yourdon's book: "The Decline and Fall of the
- > : American Programmer," and in that book he brings up meta-languages.
- > : He gives an illustration from a three volume work about Architecture
- > : (which I don't believe to be computer architecture, but about
- > : buildings, villages, etc.) The work suggests that as a technology
- > : matures, it develops a set of pattern languages that are used because
- > : they provide simple, elegant, efficient solutions to the problem
- > : domain. While you drive down the road, you'll notice certain
- > : architectural patterns, repeated again and again. Rectangles are
- > : frequently 2 times longer than they are wide; bricks for example.
- > : These patterns work, both to the eye as well as functionally. Up here
- > : in the north east (Penna.) we have porches on the front of most
- > : houses. That pattern serves many functions and does so efficiently,
- > : and, many times, rather elegantly.
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- Here is reference that you might find useful and interesting in this
- context.
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- "A Framework for Information Systems Architecture" by J.A.Zachman published
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- in IBM Systems Journal, Vol.26, No. 3, (1987), pp 276 - 292.
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- Hope that the info helps.
-
- Andrew.
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