Greg Kreis wrote:
> Having presented the above, I think we need to get away from looking at code!
> If we design this right, it won't matter what we write it in. We should be able
> to couple systems together that have totally different languages, platforms,
> etc. Right?
Sorry to be pedantic, but in the act of specifying, you _will_ be using a language,
probably one much closer to the implementation language you should be using. E.g.
CORBA IDL is a language. Maybe you can see now why we use Eiffel - it works for
specification, and just happens to be compilable into systems as well....
> Unless we can specify everything without dependencies on a language or database,
> we are doomed. This is the lesson of the 70s and 80s. Code rots and databases
> petrify. We need to lay up our treasures were they cannot be corrupted so
> easily.
What you really want to avoid are implementation software models (cf specification
models) and database schemas masquerading as logical information models. THen I agree
with your statement.
- thomas beale
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