Re: Another view on analysis and ER
From: David Cressey <cressey73_at_verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:35:00 GMT
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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:35:00 GMT
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"rpost" <rpost_at_pcwin518.campus.tue.nl> wrote in message
news: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
>
> --
> Reinier
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