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Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:01:18 -0300
From: Bob Badour <bbadour@pei.sympatico.ca>
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Subject: Re: How is Behavior Specified
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H. S. Lahman wrote:
> Responding to Cressey...
> 
>> How is behavior specified?
>>
>> In particular, is the specification expressed as declaratives or as
>> imperatives?
> 
> The short answer is: anyway you want -- so long as the specification 
> semantics are compliant with the UML execution meta model.

What the fuck does UML have to do with anything useful?