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"Team Ada: Ada Advocacy Issues (83 & 95)" <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 19 May 1997 07:38:24 -0700
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"Chris Sparks (Mr. Ada)" <[log in to unmask]>
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Robert Dewar wrote:

> I am not too surprised that you do not get a flood of answers to this
> enquiry. I thought that the illusion that you could create useful
> documentation with such tools had essentially disappeared twenty
> years ago (in the 60's and 70's, there were many such tools around,
> but all they did was to generate piles of junk -- of course if the
> requirement for documentation is measured just by bulk, they are
> handy tools indeed :-)

Isn't that the truth!  I was taken aback when I asked to help a fellow
coworker to find such a tool.  What I have been doing is trying to get
him hooked on GRASP.  I think this is a much better tool for what he
needs!  It amazes me how some people get stuck on an idea when better
ones are out there.  Oh well :-)

Thanks for responding Robert.

Chris Sparks
McDonnell Douglas

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