David Freeman david_freeman@rocketmail.com writes:
Exactly. The english language is a self referential incomplete system ( i.e. recuresion to recursion) and by using a meta language - UML - we can desribe things without the self referentailism.
...but instead UML is defined in English which is a self-referential... you get the idea ;-)
I think you mean spiral [...]
Instead of what? "Waterfall" rings a bell from my Systems Engineering course many years ago.
--- MJ Ray markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
David Freeman david_freeman@rocketmail.com writes:
Exactly. The english language is a self referential incomplete
system (
i.e. recuresion to recursion) and by using a meta language - UML -
we
can desribe things without the self referentailism.
...but instead UML is defined in English which is a self-referential... you get the idea ;-)
Mark 2-0 Freeman.
I think you mean spiral [...]
Instead of what? "Waterfall" rings a bell from my Systems Engineering course many years ago.
Have a look at the document at http://www.alug.org.uk/freemadi/part1.pdf
Its my last assignment for systems analysis at college. It talks about all of these things.
Thanks
D
-- MJR
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...but instead UML is defined in English which is a self-referential... you get the idea ;-)
nope, you can design and write UML diagrams in any language, and it is restricted to well understood, software engineering priciples...
I can read a UML class diagram written in french, with french function calls, and look at the source code and understand what is going on without any trouble. and before anybody asks, no, I don't speak french ;)...
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