From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2006-10-25T11:30:50+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT:usage of uml]

On 10/24/06, Giles Bowkett <gilesb@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was going to say, didn't UML have roots in Smalltalk?

I don't know about that.

It really came about when Rational ended up hiring James Rumbaugh and
then Ivar Jacobsen (or perhaps the other way around), which put them
and Grady Booch together. Thus the "Three Amigos" were born and the
three methodologies: OMT (Rumbaugh), OOSE (Jacobsen), and Booch's
methodology were merged spinning out UML as a byproduct.

Grady was a bit of a closet Smalltalker, I believe that the prototype
of Rational ROSE was written in Smalltalk, but it was the C++ types
who seemed to be a more receptive audience to all of the hawkers of
'methodologies' back then.

> UML is kind of a priestly language, in that it doesn't really seem as
> if it gets used in the real world a great deal, but in its defense,
> learning UML is pretty good discipline for object-oriented programming
> in any language. It's kind of anomalous, because you can't actually
> code in it, yet I think learning UML probably made me a better
> programmer.

Ya think!?!

-- 
Rick DeNatale

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