wrote:
> ....
> My argument, of course, lay in not writing different source
> documents (with different source files to maintain) which
> later then either manually or automatically in software
> produced source code. but instead to write in a single source
> language from which you can produce the different UML
> documents of your choice.
So am I to infer from this that your presentation on the white
board at the last meeting was irrelevant? Did Sheridan waste his
time taking pictures? After all, what you presented was not
automatically generated from the Warpicity/Developers' Assistant
source code.
> Thus if you make a mistake on the
> "must use", you note it with the tool and you now get a
> "correct" set.
>
> If you read the above article, particularly with respect to
> changing requirements, you will note that the proposed tool
> easily answers the desired features the author mentions,
> particularly that related to "incomplete" requirements. I
> addressed that in a previous message on this day.
Well, Fred Brooks' article "No Silver Bullet" has not been
refuted by Agile Development. His thesis does not have the
rigor of a mathematical theorem and maybe he will be proven
wrong someday. Until then, let us put the No-Silver-Bullet
thesis in the same category as the Goldbach Conjecture.
--
Gregory W. Smith (WD9GAY) gsmith@well.com
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