Hey Tim,

Would that be why so little "good" code has been written since 1972? ;-)
Seriously though, I think a lot of people get so caught up in worrying 
about
the trees that they have no idea what the forrest looks like.

Static maps printed out on paper are useful.  Remember the original 
Smalltalk/V
documentation?  Very handy in it's day, and not totally useless 20 years 
later.

For Aaron:

        Object browseHierarchy

is a reasonably good place to start.  Less confusing than all this 
senseless
category crap, IMO.

                -Dean







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"Aaron Gray" <angray at beeb.net> wrote:

> 
> Thats horrible, I meant a nice preferably UML notation chart that I 
could 
> print out and put on my wall.
Not only is it unlikely to be convenient to print (got a 48" width
carriage laserjet handy :-) ?) but it will almost certainly have
changed by the time it finishes printing!

Dynamic tools are what you need old chap - paper and sourcecode files
are the quaint relics of dinosaurian software fudging. We haven't done
that stuff since, ooh, 1972 or so ... surely nobody does that stuff
these days, not even those java chappies down the hall?


tim
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