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Re: (data) medium is the message

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• Subject: Re: (data) medium is the message
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 16:07:42 -0600
• In-reply-to: Message from "Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter.Hunsberger@s...> of "Thu, 01 May 2003 12:03:38 CDT." <601F6322AD71D5118D6C00034725152910FF247F@s...>
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> > Even if you can map the constructs of an OO framework onto a 
> > particular relational database, it can't be automated because 
> > the *intent* is divergent. Well, the intent is mostly 
> > informal, unspecified, and floating free. The definitions of 
> > the system aren't themselves closed, at least not on the OO 
> > side. 
> 
> I believe it is mostly possible to automatically reverse engineer a given
> language (say Java or C++) into a UML representation?


I have heard this innumerable times in theory.  In practice, there's nothing 
there but the sound of gnashing teeth in the outer darkness of unkempt.

Programmers don't come up with pejorative nickames such as "Irrational 
corrosion" and "Object Demise" for fun.  Depending on the results of automatic 
reverse-engineering fro OO languages into UML is a true recipe for clamity.


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Uche Ogbuji                                    Fourthought, Inc.
http://uche.ogbuji.net    http://4Suite.org    http://fourthought.com
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Introducing N-Triples - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-thi
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