BabyUML overview posted

Trygve Reenskaug trygver at ifi.uio.no
Tue Sep 20 16:47:43 UTC 2005


Bob,
Since I started my career as a chartered electical engineer, I am curious 
to know  what you see as the difference between craftspeople and engineers? :-)

--Trygve

At 17:54 20.09.2005, you wrote:
>Trygve Reenskaug wrote:
> > I want increased confidence in my programs.
> > I want my own and other people's programs to be more readable.
> > I want a new discipline of programming that augments my thought processes.
> > BabyUML is a coherent multi-language discipline
> >     for coding object interaction /and /objects/classes.
>
>One of the reasons I'm out here, Trygve, is that I see Squeak as a way
>to make the activity of writing software more approachable.
>
>I believe that there's lots of software to be written and that much of
>it should be written by craftspeople, not engineers.
>
>If BabyUML can help that group write more software (which it seems like
>it should), then I'm all for it!
>
> > I have, of course, started building BabyUML an extension of Squeak,
> > but it does not appear to be a realistic task for a one-person team.
> > More about that when I see the response to this opener (if any).
>
>I'm all ears!
>
>Bob


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