Re: Another view on analysis and ER

From: rpost <rpost_at_pcwin518.campus.tue.nl>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:36:42 +0100
Message-ID: <5e866$4760384a$839b4533$32042_at_news1.tudelft.nl>


Jon Heggland wrote:

[...]

>Straw man. I don't believe I've said anything in general about the
>qualities of graphical languages versus textual. I merely observed that
>this guy's assumption that analysis = data modeling = drawing something
>is dubious.

I agree. I wasn't attacking you. However I believe it is just as relevant to notice that many formally inclined computer scientists work with an (often tacit) assumption that anything graphical is inherently inexact, informal, merely illustrative in nature.

>--
>Jon

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Reinier
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