Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: Conference Report - UML

[Horst Herb]

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 22:54, Roberto Mello wrote:

> I've done UML modeling. It's not the save-us-all pill touted by some, but
> it can help you in designing your OO system. 
> 
> However, I will warn, as a database person, that UML is useless for
> modeling databases or data. C.J. Date has written quite a bit about it,
> see http://dbdebunk.com/ and especifically 
> http://www.dbdebunk.com/page/page/622916.htm

I would totally agree.
I find UML diagrams most useful to allow new contributors to get started
(i.e. using UML as documentation, but not neccessarily as design tool)

Horst