In article <200301131517.24081.tim / bates.id.au>,
Tim Bates  <tim / bates.id.au> wrote:
>Does anyone know of a good OO modelling (UML?) tool for Linux, that works well 
>with the Ruby way of doing things? ie not one loaded with features specific 
>to C++ or Java...
>
>Tim Bates

I'm not answering your question, but asking you a question... please don't 
take this wrong, but I've been curious about this UML stuff and since 
you're asking about UML I'm assuming you know it and use it.  I've never 
done any UML and I don't know much about it other than it's a graphical 
way to model the interactions in an OO system.  So with that in mind...

What good is UML?  I mean, it seems to me that especially with languages 
like Ruby you could just code your OO system and then refactor as needed.
You could even use Ruby as a prototyping tool to come up with an OO design 
for your application and then code the final app in C++ or Java after 
you've done some experimenting in Ruby.
I remember that when I was first learning programming (longer ago than I 
want to admit) flow charts were still in vogue.... now nobody does a 
flowchart, they might do pseudo-code, but I haven't seen a flowchart in 
years.  It seems to me that UML is kind of like flowcharting... am I 
wrong?

Phil
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