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

Date 2012-08-05 08:41 -0700
From Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Do C++ and Java professionals use UML??
References (15 earlier) <501190d4$0$291$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <EvSdnXhPjOT-IY_NnZ2dnUVZ_rSdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <MPG.2a85231bdcffe960989731@202.177.16.121> <i8-dnR2vnZbqqIDNnZ2dnUVZ_qudnZ2d@earthlink.com> <nospam-30866A.10503505082012@news.aioe.org>
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On 8/5/2012 7:50 AM, John B. Matthews wrote:
> In article <i8-dnR2vnZbqqIDNnZ2dnUVZ_qudnZ2d@earthlink.com>,
>   Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> One sharp on both ends might be widely rejected as dangerous; one blunt
> on both ends might be an unfamiliar style of draw knife. I see no harm
> in polite explication in either case.
>
>> 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.
>
> A medical supply vendor asks for help marketing a new line of compressed
> nitrous oxide. Instead of the familiar blue, the tanks are green,
> "nitrous" is almost illegible, and "oxide" is misspelled in a
> particularly unfortunate way. No one comments. An errant bottle finds
> its way to a matching green oxygen manifold; hapless victims enter a
> persistent vegetative state. Misery ensues.

This seems like a good argument in support of sticking to one style,
regardless of brand. The programming equivalent is using one set of
conventions for indentation and identifier construction regardless of
programming language. That way, there is less risk of someone misreading
an identifier because it is in a different style from code in another
language they have been using.

Patricia

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