At 08:05 AM 1/16/01 -0800, Tom Timberlake wrote: . . . > >It would be nice to have a design language or modeling tool that could > >visually describe the > >architecture of an entire system -- including all types of design elements > >-- in a uniform way. > >Although such a design language or modeling tool does not currently exist, > >there is an > >implementation language that maps surprisingly well to the elements of the > >universal design > >pattern: Ada95. The popular object-oriented language C++, on the other > >hand, performs rather > >poorly when it comes to implementing data flow managers and I/O servers. Yes, I have always found it VERY STRANGE that people who are gung ho about "Object Oriented" don't have the least bit of a problem using a language (C++, Java) that offers virtually no language support for data modeling. But then, I DO understand that, to a large part, that is because their C.S. education was so weak on the importance of data modeling. :) sro S. Ron Oliver, semi-retired professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering. www.csc.calpoly.edu/~sroliver Tired of sucky software! ? Check out www.caressCorp.com and follow the links to software sucks and The Oliver Academy.