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Re: Do C++ and Java professionals use UML??

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  To: Wanja Gayk
From: Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>

On 8/4/2012 1:17 AM, Wanja Gayk wrote:
> In article <EvSdnXhPjOT-IY_NnZ2dnUVZ_rSdnZ2d@earthlink.com>,
> pats@acm.org says...
>
>> I think of programming languages as tools, not philosophies.
>
> You can use a excavator to dig a hole and you could use your old hand
> shovel, but you would not try to grab and move the excavator's arm with
> our hands to dig a hole, just because that's the way you operated your
> old hand shovel for the past 10 years, and you're used to that.
>
> Both are different tools that use the same method (digging) to do the
> same job (creating a hole), but they want to be used the way their
> inventors have imagined, not the way you have used another tool
> previously. It may still work though, but I doubt it's the brightest
> idea.

There are indeed some things that are really necessary for effective use of a 
given tool. I put the sharp end of my chisel against the wood, and tap the 
blunt end with a mallet. I'm sure everyone using a wood chisel and a mallet 
does that the same way round.

The analogy for the situation that started this sub-thread is as though the 
excavator were delivered with green paint, and most excavators of that model 
were painted green. A particular user has a lot of hole-related tools such as 
pile drivers and other models of excavators, and choose to paint all of them 
blue to avoid the inconvenience of keeping different paint colors around.

He asked a question about lubricating the excavator, but some people take one 
look at a photo of his blue excavator and tell him that it should be green, 
that he will never be a capable excavator user unless he paints it green, and 
that green paint is the excavator way.

Patricia

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Re: Do C++ and Java professionals use UML?? "Arne Vajhøj" <arne.vajhøj@1:261/38.remove-10ae-this> - 2012-07-27 18:40 +0000
  Re: Do C++ and Java professionals use UML?? "Patricia Shanahan" <patricia.shanahan@1:261/38.remove-10ae-this> - 2012-07-27 18:41 +0000
    Re: Do C++ and Java professionals use UML?? jebblue <n@n.nnn> - 2012-07-28 11:32 -0500
    Re: Do C++ and Java professionals use UML?? "Wanja Gayk" <wanja.gayk@1:261/38.remove-5qr-this> - 2012-08-04 18:41 +0000
      Re: Do C++ and Java professionals use UML?? "Patricia Shanahan" <patricia.shanahan@1:261/38.remove-5qr-this> - 2012-08-04 18:41 +0000
        Re: Do C++ and Java professionals use UML?? "John B. Matthews" <john.b..matthews@1:261/38.remove-2y0-this> - 2012-08-05 18:42 +0000
        Re: Do C++ and Java professionals use UML?? "Arne Vajhøj" <arne.vajhøj@1:261/38.remove-p82-this> - 2012-08-08 06:20 +0000
    Re: Do C++ and Java professionals use UML?? "Arne Vajhøj" <arne.vajhøj@1:261/38.remove-p82-this> - 2012-08-08 06:20 +0000
  Re: Do C++ and Java professionals use UML?? "Gene Wirchenko" <gene.wirchenko@1:261/38.remove-10ae-this> - 2012-07-27 18:41 +0000

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